civic, civil, communal, governmental.
local, private, unshared.
I use public transportation everyday to go to work.
استخدم وسائل النقل العام كل يوم للذهاب إلى العمل.
This is public park, we can sit here if we like.
هذه حديقة عامة، يمكننا الجلوس هنا إذا أردنا.
The governor made a public statement about what happened yesterday.
أدلى المحافظ بتصريح علني حول ما حدث أمس.
Keep this a secret and don't go public with it.
احتفظ بهذا سرًا ولا تعلن عنه.
I'm beginning to hate public officials.
بدأت أكره المسؤولين العامين.
I should be given a public service medal.
يجب أن أحصل على وسام الخدمة العامة.
go public
go public
in public
in public
the public eye
the public eye
late 14c., publike, "open to general observation," from Old French public (c. 1300) and directly from Latin publicus "of the people; of the state; done for the state," also "common, general, of or belonging to the people at large; ordinary, vulgar," and as a noun, "a commonwealth; public property." This Latin word was altered (probably by influence of Latin pubes "adult population, adult) from Old Latin poplicus "pertaining to the people," from populus "people".
Attested in English from early 15c. as "of or pertaining to the people at large" and from late 15c. as "pertaining to public affairs." The meaning "open to all in the community, to be shared or participated in by people at large" is from 1540s in English. An Old English adjective in this sense was folclic. The sense of "done or made by or on behalf of the community as a whole" is by 1550s; that of "regarding or directed to the interests of the community at large, patriotic" is from c. 1600.
