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public eye

public eye noun: the focus of public attention; the limelight.

Noun

public eye

  1. (idiomatic, with-definite-article) The focus of public attention; the limelight.
    • The lens of the public eye is focused on the sensational trial.
    • The chief function of an English journal is that of all other journals the world over: it must keep the public eye fixed admiringly upon certain things, and keep it diligently diverted from certain others.1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter X, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 97

public eye meaning in Urdu and Bengali

public eye in Urdu

focus of public attention
منظرِ عام manzar-e-'ām

public eye in Bengali

জনসাধারণের মনোযোগের কেন্দ্রবিন্দু, লোকচক্ষু

Examples of public eye in a sentence

  • The president and her advisers seem convinced that by keeping the issue of the Falklands in the public eye she can embarrass London into eventual negotiations.2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, “Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'”, in The Guardian, UK:
  • She finally began holding press conferences to keep her daughter’s face in the public eye.2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring...

Questions about public eye

What does public eye mean?
Public eye means the focus of public attention; the limelight.
What is public eye in Urdu?
Public eye in Urdu is منظرِ عام (manzar-e-'ām). See Public eye meaning in Urdu.
How do you use public eye in a sentence?
The president and her advisers seem convinced that by keeping the issue of the Falklands in the public eye she can embarrass London into eventual negotiations.
What part of speech is public eye?
Public eye is a noun.

Words near public eye in the dictionary

  1. public domainness
  2. public enemies
  3. public enemy
  4. Public Enemy No. 1
  5. public enemy number one
  6. public eye
  7. public figure
  8. public figures
  9. public finance
  10. Public Friend
  11. Public Friends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: public eye (page history and authors); public eye (Bengali 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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