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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To prepare and issue (printed material) for public distribution or sale.
  2. v. To bring to the public attention; announce. See Synonyms at announce.
  3. v. To issue a publication.
  4. v. To be the writer or author of published works or a work.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make public; make known to people in general; promulgate or proclaim, as a law or edict.
  2. To exhibit, display, disclose, or reveal.
  3. To utter, or put in circulation, as counterfeit paper; communicate to another person, as a libel or slander.
  4. To cause to be printed and offered for sale; issue from the press; put in circulation: as, to publish a book, map, print, periodical, piece of music, or the like.
  5. To introduce to public notice; offer or advertise to the public.
  6. Synonyms Declare, Proclaim, etc. (see announce), disclose, divulge, reveal, spread abroad. See list under proclaim.
  7. In systematic biol., to give technical publication to. See publication, 5.

Wiktionary

  1. v. : To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
  2. v. : To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
  3. v. : To announce to the public.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.
  2. v. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church.
  3. v. 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. v. To utter, or put into circulation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. put into print
  2. v. prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
  3. v. have (one's written work) issued for publication

Etymologies

  1. Middle English publicen, publishen, to make known publicly, from alteration of Old French publier, from Latin pūblicāre; see publication.

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