Definition of public square
1
: an open public area in a city or town where people gather
- St. Mark's Square in Venice is sinking at a time when this Italian city's popularity is rising. The world's most famous public square now floods an average of three out of every five days.
- —Tom Crosby
2
: the sphere of public opinion
- In an August 2007 speech, then-New York governor Eliot Spitzer expounded upon Reinhold Niebuhr and the virtues of humility in the public square.
- —Lisa Miller
- … using legal action to cow an opponent into silence, and withdrawal from the public square.
- —Mark Steyn
