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in public

in public prepositional phrase: in view of other people, who may be strangers.

Prepositional phrase

  1. In view of other people, who may be strangers.
    • Don't you know it's rude to pick your nose in public?

in public meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit

in public in Tamil

வெளியே

in public in Malayalam

openly, publicly, in full view of people
പരസ്യമായി, ലോകസമക്ഷം, എല്ലാവരും കാൺകെ, പ്രത്യക്ഷതഃ, പൊതുജനദൃഷ്ടിയൽ, അഗുപ്ത

in public in Kannada

ಬಹಿರಂಗವಾಗಿ, ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಕಾಣುವಂತೆ

in public in Sanskrit

in view of other people — see also publicly
प्रकटम् prakaṭam

Antonyms of in public

Words formed from in public

Questions about in public

What does in public mean?
In public means in view of other people, who may be strangers.
What is in public in Tamil?
In public in Tamil is வெளியே. See In public meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in public?
In public is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in public in the dictionary

  1. in profile
  2. in progress
  3. in proper
  4. in propria persona
  5. in protest
  6. in public
  7. in pup
  8. in puris naturalibus
  9. in pursuit
  10. in quantity
  11. in question

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in public (page history and authors); in public (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in public (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); in public (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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