public square

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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

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The first known use of public square was in 1757

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