publish
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)publishes, published, publishing
- put into print“The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce”“This news should not be printed”Synonyms: printMore general produce, makeMore specific gazette, republish
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale“publish a magazine or newspaper”Synonyms: bring output outissuereleaseMore general publicize, publiciseMore specific edit
- have (one's work) issued for publication“She published 25 books during her long career”“Mozart didn't publish all of his works”More general appear, come along
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Translations
Verb to issue a medium
- Spanish
- publicar
- French
- publier
- German
- veröffentlichen
- Italian
- pubblicare
- Portuguese
- publicar
- Turkish
- yayımlamak
- Russian
- публикова́ть publikovátʹ
- Chinese
- 出版 chūbǎn
- Dutch
- publiceren
- Polish
- publikować
17 more languages
- Swedish
- publicera
- Greek
- εκδίδω ekdído
- Korean
- 출판하다 chulpanhada
- Vietnamese
- xuất bản
- Hungarian
- megjelentet
- Portuguese (PT)
- publicar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 出版 chūbǎn
- Catalan
- publicar
- Czech
- vydat
- Danish
- udgive
- Esperanto
- eldoni
- Finnish
- julkaista
- Norwegian
- publisere
- Romanian
- publica
- Serbo-Croatian
- publicirati
- Welsh
- cyhoeddi
- Yiddish
- אַרויסגעבן aroysgebn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. publier, L. publicare, publicatum. See Public, and -ish.
1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Published was the bounty of her name.— Geoffrey Chaucer
The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand.— Joseph Addison
2. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.
3. To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.
4. To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper. U.S.
To publish a will Law, to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator's last will and testament.
Synonyms: To announce; proclaim; advertise; declare; promulgate; disclose; divulge; reveal. See Announce.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54