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publican

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for publican.

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If the publican also resides on the premises, he may have a home subscription for his own personal use.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Synonym of Arnoldist.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of publican gathered in one view.

noun

Synonym of Arnoldist.

noun

(Commonwealth, by extension) The manager or owner of a hotel.

noun

(by extension, archaic) Any person who collects customs duties, taxes, tolls, or other forms of public revenue.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for publican.

noun

Synonym of Arnoldist.

noun

(Commonwealth, by extension) The manager or owner of a hotel.

noun

(by extension, archaic) Any person who collects customs duties, taxes, tolls, or other forms of public revenue.

noun

(figuratively, archaic) One regarded as extorting money from others by charging high prices.

Example sentences

1

If the publican also resides on the premises, he may have a home subscription for his own personal use.

2

Yup, a publican went to court with Sky in the UK about this.

3

I'm pretty sure they never play Bears games at Publican or Violet Hour.

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I can't speak much about Publican however.

5

It is generally accepted that Lucas, Matthew, Luke and John were educated Greeks (a publican, student,and a physician), who were educated in the philosophy of reason.

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The next day, we had a team dinner set up at Publican in Chicago, which is hugely a metric fuckload of calories, and so I skipped lunch that day as well.

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> It is generally accepted that Lucas, Matthew, Luke and John were educated Greeks (a publican, student,and a physician), who were educated in the philosophy of reason.

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Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, \ policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives.

Quote examples

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It is, the level of the pint glass changes every day, so the "enterprising publican" would have to send someone out everyday and change his sticker every day too.

2

Any reason you chose LaTeX as your content dev language and publishing over something a little "easier" like DocBook XML and Publican (which uses LaTeX as an intermediate build language to create PDFs)?

3

This is a meaning for "publican" much older than pubs, and the also the meaning of "publican" as described in Wikipedia [0] and as many of us have learned at school about Gospel of Luke (where this role of a despised tax collector or collaborator with the occupying Roman empire was at heart of the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican).

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Because if I were an "enterprising publican" I would simply send someone over to where they had a subscription and take a look at what level the pint glass was, which is a lot more difficult than finding constantly changing stickers.

Proper noun examples

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Semi-OT, there's an excellent bar/restaurant in Chicago named Publican.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use publican in a sentence?

If the publican also resides on the premises, he may have a home subscription for his own personal use.

What does publican mean?

Synonym of Arnoldist.

What part of speech is publican?

publican is commonly used as noun.