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public-spirited

public-spirited adjective: having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public.

Adjective

public-spirited (comparative more public-spirited, superlative most public-spirited)

  1. Having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public.
    • For the young this device has proved most excellent under the wise management of the United Hebrew Charities, an organization that gathers to its work the best thought and effort of many of our most public-spirited citizens.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 134
    • He was a noted philanthropist, and played a public-spirited part in the support of the Army during the Crimean War.1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 209
    Synonyms:
    public-hearted

public-spirited meaning in Malayalam

public-spirited in Malayalam

socially concerned, community-minded, philanthropic
പൊതുജനസേവനതല്പരനായ, പൊതുജനസേവ നിരതനായ, പൊതുക്കാര്യപ്രസക്തനായ, സാമൂഹ്യബോധമുള്ള, പൊതുകാര്യങ്ങളിൽ വ്യാപൃതമായ, ജനസേവനിരതനായ

Synonyms of public-spirited

Forms of public-spirited

comparativemore public-spirited
superlativemost public-spirited

Words formed from public-spirited

  • public-spiritedly
  • public-spiritedness

Questions about public-spirited

What does public-spirited mean?
Public-spirited means having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public.
What is public-spirited in Malayalam?
Public-spirited in Malayalam is പൊതുജനസേവനതല്പരനായ, പൊതുജനസേവ നിരതനായ, പൊതുക്കാര്യപ്രസക്തനായ. See Public-spirited meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is public-spirited?
Public-spirited is an adjective.

Words near public-spirited in the dictionary

  1. public-school
  2. public-schools
  3. public-sector
  4. public-service announcement
  5. public-service announcements
  6. public-spirited
  7. public/private partnership
  8. public/private partnerships
  9. publicable
  10. publical
  11. publically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: public-spirited (page history and authors); public-spirited (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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