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pub.

pub. is the abbreviation of published by or publisher.

pub. is the abbreviation of public hotel.

pub. is the abbreviation of publication.

Meaning of public hotel

Noun

public hotel (plural public hotels)

  1. (Australia) A public house; a pub.

Meaning of publication

Noun

publication (countable and uncountable, plural publications)

  1. The act of publishing printed or other matter.
    • The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others.1727, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, “Preface”, in Miscellanies in Prose
  2. An issue of printed or other matter, offered for sale or distribution.
  3. The communication of information to the general public etc.
    • His jealousy ... attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man.1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC

Noun capitalized: Pub.

Pub.

  1. Publisher(s).
  2. Publication(s)
  3. Public.
  4. Publishing.

Words formed from pub.

Phrases with pub.

Questions about pub.

What does pub. mean?
Pub. means publisher(s).
What is pub. the abbreviation of?
Pub. is the abbreviation of published by or publisher.
What part of speech is pub.?
Pub. is a noun.

Words near pub. in the dictionary

  1. pub-crawling
  2. pub-crawls
  3. pub-goer
  4. pub-goers
  5. pub-sub
  6. pub.
  7. Pub. L.
  8. pubalgia
  9. pubarchal
  10. pubarche
  11. pubarcheal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pub. (page history and authors); Pub. (page history and authors); public hotel (page history and authors); publication (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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