Meaning

4 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.

    Werbung

    рекла́маrekláma, пабли́ситиpablísiti

  2. (uncountable, usually)Public interest attracted in this way.

    сла́ваsláva, изве́стностьizvéstnostʹ

  3. (uncountable, usually)The condition of being the object of public attention.

    гла́сностьglásnostʹ, пабли́ситиpablísiti

  4. (uncountable, usually)The quality of being public, not private.

    the quality of being open to public view

Examples

25 sentences
  1. That's just a cheap publicity stunt.

    ruЭто просто дешёвый рекламный трюк. — odexed

    deDas ist nur ein billiger Werbegag. — Tamy

  2. We don't want any bad publicity.

    ruМы не хотим какой-либо негативной огласки. — odexed

  3. Tom did it as a publicity stunt.

  4. We did that as a publicity stunt.

  5. I heard Tom hates publicity.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something:
public interest attracted in this way:
the condition of being the object of public attention:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something:

Origin

From French publicité, From Medieval Latin pūblicitātem, accusative singular of pūblicitās

From French publicité, From Medieval Latin pūblicitātem, accusative singular of pūblicitās, from Latin pūblicus (“public, general”). Morphologically public + -ity.

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Forms

plural: publicities
Singularpublicity

uncountable

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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