"general public" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} general public pl (plural only)
  1. Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Collectives Translations (members of the public who have no special role): عَامَّة اَلنَّاس (ʕāmmat an-nās) [plural] (Arabic), 公眾 (Chinese Mandarin), 公众 (gōngzhòng) (Chinese Mandarin), 大眾 (Chinese Mandarin), 大众 (dàzhòng) (Chinese Mandarin), 群眾 (english: communist connotations) (Chinese Mandarin), 群众 (qúnzhòng) (Chinese Mandarin), suuri yleisö (Finnish), grand public [masculine] (French), público en xeral (Galician), Allgemeinheit [feminine] (German), pubblico generale [masculine] (Italian), 大衆 (taishū) (alt: たいしゅう) (Japanese), 一般の人々 (ippan-no hitobito) (alt: いっぱんのひとびと) (Japanese), iwi whānui (Maori), allmennhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), allmente [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ålmente [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), обще́ственность (obščéstvennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), ма́ссы (mássy) [feminine, plural] (Russian), широ́кая пу́блика (širókaja públika) [feminine] (Russian), gran público [masculine] (Spanish), folkdjup [neuter] (Swedish), công chúng (Vietnamese), xã hội (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-general_public-en-noun-~6dxH10t Disambiguation of Collectives: 71 29 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 64 36 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 72 28 Disambiguation of 'members of the public who have no special role': 74 26
  2. Members of the public not in the attentive public of any given issue; laypeople. Tags: plural, plural-only Translations (laypeople): 外行 (wàiháng) (Chinese Mandarin), suuri yleisö (Finnish), 素人 (shirōto) (Japanese), 門外漢 (mongaikan) (Japanese), миря́не (mirjáne) (english: non-clergy) [masculine, plural] (Russian), дилета́нты (diletánty) (english: amateurs) [masculine, plural] (Russian), profanos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), legos [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-general_public-en-noun-D7kFhVoE Disambiguation of 'laypeople': 15 85

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      "sense": "laypeople",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "legos"
    }
  ],
  "word": "general public"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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