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# publicity

«publicity» in Mova's school dictionary: **Attention from newspapers, TV, the internet and the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (publicity, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Attention from newspapers, TV, the internet and the public: «The rescue got a lot of publicity.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#m1)

2) The work of getting people to notice something, like adverts, posters and interviews: «The publicity for the film was everywhere.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In media lessons it explains how events, products and people become known; in everyday life it is the posters and adverts around us. Phrases: «good publicity», «bad publicity», «a publicity stunt», «get publicity».

### examples

- The school fair got good publicity in the local paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#x1)
- The singer's new song had huge publicity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#x2)
- Climbing the tower was just a publicity stunt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#x3)
- The company got bad publicity after the toy broke easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#x4)
- We made posters for publicity for the bake sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#x5)
- «There's no such thing as bad publicity,» some people say, but that is not always true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «a lot of publicity», not «publicities». Related: public, publicise (UK)/publicize (US), publicist. A «publicity stunt» is something done mainly to get attention.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «publicity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.