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public square

public square noun: synonym of town square.

Noun

public square (plural public squares)

  1. Synonym of town square.
    • “The infrastructures of places like Mastodon and TikTok, which are wildly different from one another, of course, are too segmented to create the feeling of a truly public square,” Jackson says.2022 November 18, Jason Parham, quoting Sarah J. Jackson, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in Wired, →ISSN
    • For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    town square

Synonyms of public square

Forms of public square

pluralpublic squares

Questions about public square

What does public square mean?
Public square means synonym of town square.
What part of speech is public square?
Public square is a noun.
What is the plural of public square?
The plural of public square is public squares.

Words near public square in the dictionary

  1. public speaking
  2. public speakings
  3. public spending
  4. public sphere pedagogy
  5. public spirit
  6. public square
  7. public squares
  8. public telephones
  9. public television
  10. public toilets
  11. public transit

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