publication

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pub=li=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

publication, n. [L. publicatio confiscation: cf. F. publication. See Publish.].

•  The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.  [1913 Webster]

  "The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.  [1913 Webster]
•  An act done in public.  [1913 Webster]

  "His jealousy . . . attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man."  [1913 Webster]

Publication of a libel (Law), such an exhibition of a libel as brings it to the notice of at least one person other than the person libeled. -- Publication of a will (Law), the delivery of a will, as his own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

publication, n.
1 a the preparation and issuing of a book, newspaper, engraving, music, etc. to the public. b a book etc. so issued.
2 the act or an instance of making something publicly known.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L publicatio -onis (as PUBLISH)

THESAURUS

publication

Christophany, Satanophany, account, acquaintance, advertisement, advertising, airing, albertype, angelophany, announcement, annual, appearance, attenuation, avatar, best seller, bimonthly, biweekly, blue book, book, book printing, booklet, bound book, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, broadside, brochure, bulletin, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, circumfusion, classic, collotype, color printing, coloring book, communication, communique, conveyance, daily, data, datum, declaration, definitive work, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, directory, disclosure, dispatch, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divergence, electronography, electrostatic printing, embodiment, enlightenment, epiphany, evaporation, evidence, evincement, expansion, expression, facts, factual information, familiarization, flier, flyer, folio, fortnightly, fragmentation, gen, general information, giving, graphic arts, gravure, great work, guidebook, halftone engraving, hand-out, handbill, handout, hard information, hardback, hebdomadal, history of printing, impartation, imparting, impartment, incarnation, incidental information, indication, info, information, instruction, intelligence, issuance, job printing, journal, juvenile, juvenile book, knowledge, leaflet, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, light, limp-cover book, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, magazine, magnum opus, manifestation, materialization, mention, message, mimeograph, monthly, newsletter, newspaper, nonbook, notebook, notice, notification, novel, offset, offset lithography, onset, opus, opuscule, opusculum, palaeotypography, pamphlet, paper, paperback, peppering, periodical, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, picture book, planographic printing, planography, playbook, pneumatophany, pocket book, prayer book, presentation, printing, printmaking, proclamation, production, promotional material, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, propagation, psalmbook, psalter, publicity, publicizing, publishing, putting out, quarterly, radiation, release, relief printing, report, reporting, revelation, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, scattering, scatterment, serial, sharing, sheetwork, shotgun pattern, sidelight, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, standard work, statement, stencil, storybook, strewing, tabloid, telling, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, theophany, three-color printing, title, tome, trade book, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, volatilization, volume, weekly, white book, white paper, wood-block printing, word, work, writing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

ROGET THESAURUS

publication

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Publication

N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.

News

N news, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence, tidings, word, advice, aviso, message, dispatch, despatch, telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy, report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame, talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle, canard, topic of the day, idea afloat, bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings, flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut, narrator, newsmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler, journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry, newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), United Press International, UPI, Associated Press, AP, The Dow Jones News Service, DJ, The New York Times News Service, NYT, Reuters, TASS, The Nikkei, newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man, many-tongued, rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported, rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person, as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless, airy tongues that syllable men's names, what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?.