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# publicly

«publicly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in front of other people, openly, not in private** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Publicly means in front of other people, openly, not in private. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#m1)

2) Publicly means by or for the government or the public: publicly funded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: «she publicly thanked her teacher». In news and formal writing: publicly owned, publicly funded schools, publicly available. Phrases: «publicly announce», «publicly available», «publicly funded».

### examples

- He publicly apologised to the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x1)
- The results will be publicly announced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x2)
- The information is publicly available online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x3)
- Publicly funded libraries are free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x4)
- She was publicly praised in assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x5)
- Don't tell someone off publicly — talk privately. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x6)
- The park is publicly owned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x7)
- They publicly thanked the firefighters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x8)
- He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/publicly/#x9)

### note

Spelling trap: «publicly», not «publically». Opposite: privately.

### In the corpora

- [Photos posted publicly can be collected and used to make fakes; you may ask family not to post yours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/10/)
- [Words ending in -ic add -ally: basically, dramatically; «publicly» is the exception.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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