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| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people of community; people interested in something |
| Synonyms: | audience, clientele, community, country, electorate, everyone, following, masses, mob, multitude, nation, people, populace, population, society, suite, bodies, buyers, citizens, commonalty, followers, heads, men and women, patrons, supporters, voters |
| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | community, general |
| Synonyms: | accessible, city, civic, civil, common, communal, country, free, government, governmental, metropolitan, municipal, mutual, national, open, popular, social, state, universal, unrestricted, urban, widespread, conjoint, conjunct, federal, free to all, intermutual, not private, open-door, without charge |
| Antonyms: | particular, private, specific |
| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | known, acknowledged |
| Synonyms: | exposed, general, notorious, obvious, open, overt, patent, plain, popular, prevalent, published, recognized, social, usual, vulgar, widespread, in circulation, societal |
| Antonyms: | private, unknown |
| Main Entry: | accessible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approachable; ready for use |
| Synonyms: | attainable, available, door's always open, employable, exposed, getatable, handy, near, obtainable, open, operative, possible, practicable, public, reachable, susceptible, unrestricted, usable |
| Antonyms: | inaccessible, limited, restricted |
| Main Entry: | anybody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one, some unspecified person or people |
| Synonyms: | all, anyone, everyone, masses, one, public, a person, any of, any person, anyone at all, each and every one, everybody, whole world |
| Main Entry: | anyone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one, some unspecified person |
| Synonyms: | all, anybody, everyone, masses, one, public, a person, any of, any person, anybody at all, each and every one, everybody, whole world |
| Main Entry: | civic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | community |
| Synonyms: | borough, civil, communal, local, metropolitan, municipal, national, public, urban |
| Main Entry: | clientele |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | customers of business |
| Synonyms: | audience, business, constituency, cortege, following, market, patronage, public, trade, clientage, clientry, clients, dependents, patrons, regulars |
| Antonyms: | management, ownership |
| Main Entry: | communal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | collective; shared |
| Synonyms: | common, community, cooperative, general, joint, mutual, neighborhood, public, communistic, conjoint, conjunct, intermutual |
| Antonyms: | individual, personal, private, unshared |
| Main Entry: | congregation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assembled group, especially concerned with church-going |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, assemblage, assembly, audience, collection, company, crowd, flock, following, gathering, get-together, group, host, laity, meet, meeting, multitude, muster, parish, public, sit-in, throng, turnout, churchgoers, confab, disciples, parishioners |
| Main Entry: | cosmopolitan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldly-wise |
| Synonyms: | catholic, cultured, ecumenical, global, gregarious, metropolitan, planetary, polished, public, smooth, sophisticated, universal, urbane, worldly, worldwide, cultivated, well-travelled |
| Antonyms: | country, rural, rustic |
| Main Entry: | everybody/everyone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | all involved, all human beings; the whole world |
| Synonyms: | all, anybody, generality, masses, people, populace, all and sundry, each one, each person, every person, the public, the whole, young and old |
| Antonyms: | nobody/noone |
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
| Synonyms: | body politic, clan, community, family, group, house, household, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, general public, inhabitants, ménage |
| Main Entry: | following |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons of an interest or belief |
| Synonyms: | audience, circle, clientele, cortege, coterie, entourage, group, patronage, public, retinue, rout, suite, support, train, adherents, clientage, dependents, fans, groupies, hangers-on, patrons, supporters |
| Antonyms: | disbelievers |
| Main Entry: | joint |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shared, combined |
| Synonyms: | collective, common, communal, concerted, cooperative, hand in hand, joined, mutual, public, united, conjoint, conjunct, consolidated, intermutual |
| Antonyms: | disjoint, separate, single, uncombined, unshared |
| Main Entry: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, heap, herd, horde, host, infinity, jam*, legion, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, ocean*, oodles*, people, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, sea, swarm, throng, turnout, commonalty, great number, infinitude, loads, numbers, plenitude, scores, slew |
| Antonyms: | handful, portion, single, zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | municipal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning cities |
| Synonyms: | borough, city, civic, civil, community, corporate, domestic, home, incorporated, internal, local, metropolitan, native, public, town, urban, burghal |
| Antonyms: | country, suburban |
| Main Entry: | mutual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shared, common |
| Synonyms: | bilateral, collective, communal, connected, convertible, dependent, give-and-take*, interchangeable, joint, public, reciprocal, related, respective, returned, united, associated, conjoint, conjunct, correlative, given and taken, interactive, interchanged, interdependent, intermutual, partaken, participated, reciprocated, requited, two-sided |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | detached, distinct, separate, dissociated, unshared |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | country with its own government |
| Synonyms: | body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union, principality |
| Main Entry: | national |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning a country with a |
| Synonyms: | civil, communal, domestic, ethnic, general, governmental, home, imperial, inland, internal, native, politic, political, public, royal, social, sovereign, state, sweeping, vernacular, widespread, countrywide, federal, government civic, interstate, nationwide, societal |
| Antonyms: | local |
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