general public

English

Noun

general public pl (plural only)

1. Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.
2. Members of the public not in the attentive public of any given issue; laypeople.
   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2 November 2012:

     After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race.

Translations

members of the public who have no special role

• Arabic: عَامَّة اَلنَّاس pl (ʕāmmat an-nās)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公眾／公众 (zh) (gōngzhòng), 大眾／大众 (zh) (dàzhòng), (communist connotations) 群眾／群众 (zh) (qúnzhòng)

• Finnish: suuri yleisö (fi)
• French: grand public (fr) m
• Galician: público en xeral
• German: Allgemeinheit (de) f
• Italian: pubblico generale m
• Japanese: 大衆 (ja) (たいしゅう, taishū), 一般の人々 (いっぱんのひとびと, ippan-no hitobito)
• Maori: iwi whānui
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: allmennhet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: allmente f, ålmente f

• Polish: społeczeństwo (pl) n
• Russian: обще́ственность (ru) f (obščéstvennostʹ), ма́ссы (ru) f pl (mássy), широ́кая пу́блика f (širókaja públika)
• Spanish: gran público m
• Swedish: folkdjup n
• Vietnamese: công chúng (vi), xã hội (vi)

laypeople

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外行 (zh) (wàiháng)

• Finnish: suuri yleisö (fi)
• Japanese: 素人 (ja) (shirōto), 門外漢 (ja) (mongaikan)
• Russian: миря́не (ru) m pl (mirjáne) (non-clergy), дилета́нты (ru) m pl (diletánty) (amateurs)
• Spanish: profanos (es) m pl, legos (es) m