public eye

1. 1.

   a focus of public attention

   “he enjoyed being in the limelight”

   “when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency”

   Synonymslimelightspotlightglare

   Broaderprominence

Questions about public eye

What does public eye mean?

public eye means "a focus of public attention".

What is another word for public eye?

Close synonyms include limelight, spotlight, glare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is public eye a common word?

public eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.