PUBLIC EYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public eye mean? 

• PUBLIC EYE (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC EYE has 1 sense:

1. a focus of public attention

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC EYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC EYE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A focus of public attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

glare; limelight; public eye; spotlight

Context example:

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

Hypernyms ("public eye" is a kind of...):

prominence (the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent)

 Context examples 

“Being my friend's, I have no right to expose it in any degree to the public eye, but perhaps you may not dislike looking at it.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Every nincompoop in the land rushed into free print, floating their wizened little egos into the public eye on the surge of Brissenden's greatness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)