publicity
/pʌbˈlɪsɪti/
publicity noun: advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
Noun
publicity (usually uncountable, plural publicities)
- Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
- A gay man accused of disorderly conduct for posting publicity for a Boston gay event was found not guilty in Cambridge District Court on July 22.1979 August 11, “Man Found Not Guilty”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 2
- Public interest attracted in this way.
- Any publicity, runs the axiom, is good publicity.1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73
- The condition of being the object of public attention.
- Synonyms:
- buzz
- The quality of being public, not private.
- Amelia's gentle eyes, too, had been fixed anxiously on the pair, whose conduct had so chafed the jealous General; but when Rebecca entered her box, she flew to her friend with an affectionate rapture which showed itself, in spite of the publicity of the place; for she embraced her dearest friend in...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
publicity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
publicity in Hindi
- advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something
- प्रचार pracār
publicity in Tamil
- விளம்பரம்
publicity in Marathi
- publicity, limelight, notoriety
- प्रसिद्धी prasiddhī
publicity in Urdu
- publicity
- پرچار parcār, پرکاش prakāś
More languagesFewer languages
- publicity in Bengali
- রাষ্ট্র raśṭro
- publicity in Telugu
- పబ్లిసిటీ
- publicity in Malayalam
- പ്രസിദ്ധി
- publicity in Kannada
- ಆರಡಿ, ದೋವಿಲು
- publicity in Punjabi
- ਪਰਸਾਰਨ parsāran
- publicity in Gujarati
- પ્રસિદ્ધિ, પબ્લિસિટી
- publicity in Odia
- ପ୍ରକାଶ prakāśa
- publicity in Malay
- publisiti, pengiklanan, seranta
Examples of publicity in a sentence
- They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.
- We embarked on a publicity blitz, putting posters and flyers all around town.
- The decapitation of the Foreign Secretary was a significant publicity coup for the opposition.
Synonyms of publicity
Forms of publicity
| plural | publicities |
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Origin of publicity
From French publicité, From Medieval Latin pūblicitātem, accusative singular of pūblicitās, from Latin pūblicus (“public, general”). Morphologically public + -ity.
Words formed from publicity
Phrases with publicity
Words that rhyme with publicity
- felicity
- simplicity
- elasticity
- electricity
- atomicity
- ethnicity
- laicity
- historicity
- infelicity
- plasticity
- syntheticity
- triplicity
9 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about publicity
- What does publicity mean?
- Publicity means advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
- What is publicity in Hindi?
- Publicity in Hindi is प्रचार (pracār). See Publicity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is publicity?
- Publicity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce publicity?
- Publicity is pronounced /pʌbˈlɪsɪti/.
- What is the plural of publicity?
- The plural of publicity is publicities.
Words near publicity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: publicity (page history and authors); publicity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); प्रसिद्धी (Marathi) (page history and authors); پرچار (Urdu) (page history and authors); রাষ্ট্র (Bengali) (page history and authors); publicity (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); publicity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); publicity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਪਰਸਾਰਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); publicity (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ପ୍ରକାଶ (Odia) (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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