Publicised

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To convey information or messages to a large audience via various channels, thereby ensuring widespread awareness and recognition of the subject matter
2. Brought to the attention of many people through various media or announcements
3. Distributed information broadly so that it reaches a wide audience

Etymology: "Publicised" is the past tense and past participle of "publicise", which is built from the adjective "public" and the suffix "-ise". The suffix is the end of a long chain: it descends from Ancient Greek "-izein", a verb-forming ending that Late Latin took as "-izare", and that passed through Old French "-iser" into Middle English "-isen". Because the ending was so productive, English could attach it to almost any adjective or noun, and "public" plus "-ise" produced a verb meaning to make something known to the general population. The base word "public" comes from Latin "publicus", meaning belonging to the people, a sense that also covers the state and common welfare. The Latin root shares its ancestry with "populus", "people", which is why the idea of making something public is at heart about bringing it before the people as a whole.

Synonyms: advertised, promoted, broadcasted, published, announced

Antonyms: concealed, hidden, suppressed, ignored, overlooked