Public and Single

Public

Public adjective - Used or done by a number of people as a group.
Usage example: public transportation

Single is an antonym for public.

Single

Single adjective - Belonging only to the one person, unit, or group named.
Usage example: any view expressed on the newspaper's editorial pages is the single opinion of the writer of the column

Public is an antonym for single in alone topic.

Nearby Words: singleness, singly, singled

Both words in one sentence

  • Rather than have a single national public broadcaster, there are multiple regional public broadcasters, which all produce their own content and then send it to other regions.
  • Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics They wanted a single payer option, they wanted the so-called public option, they didn’t like not from the right, they didn’t like it because it wasn’t left or liberal enough.
  • On The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem defended Manson and himself from the public backlash that erupted from Columbine with the single "The Way I Am".
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