Definitions for publicity

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publicity pub·lic·i·ty

Spelling: [puh-blis-i-tee]

IPA: /pʌˈblɪs ɪ ti/

Publicity is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in publicity (bciilptuy).

Definitions for publicity

noun

1. extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
2. public notice so gained.
3. the measures, process, or business of securing public notice.
4. information, articles, or advertisements issued to secure public notice or attention.
5. the state of being public, or open to general observation or knowledge.

Origin of publicity

1785-95; French publicité Medieval Latin pūblicitās. See public, -ity

Examples for publicity

In 1945 or 1946, Hitch and Alma were in New York with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, on a publicity tour.

Now that he was Sir Alfred, there was one final blast of publicity.

He was in publicity heaven, a place he adored, and he was full of talk of the future.

He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

There was no publicity at the time about the deal he made with an old connection from his days at Yale.

We do not pretend to conceal from you the fact that we are anxious to avoid all publicity, all scandal.

But I was terribly hampered by the publicity which attended my movements.

Also obtained some publicity by expensive exploring in Canada and New Hampshire.

But their baseness lies in their privacy, not in their publicity.

You didn't see that when you left New York, and therefore you were afraid of publicity.