publish

1. 1.

   put into print

   “The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce”

   “These news should not be printed”

   Synonymsprint

   Broaderproduce

   Narrowerrepublishgazette
2. 2.

   prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

   “publish a magazine or newspaper”

   Synonymsbring output outissuerelease

   Broaderpublicize

   Narroweredit
3. 3.

   have (one's work) issued for publication

   “She published 25 books during her long career”

   “Mozart didn't publish all of his works”

Other forms of publish

past tense

published·

present participle

publishing·

third person

publishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about publish

What does publish mean?

publish means "put into print". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in publish?

publish has 2 syllables: pub-lish. The stress falls on "pub". In IPA it is /ˈpʌblɪʃ/.

What is another word for publish?

Close synonyms include print, bring out, put out, issue, release. 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 publish a common word?

publish is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.