public domainn.

Brit.

/ˌpʌblɪk də(ʊ)ˈmeɪn/, U.S.

/ˌpəblɪk doʊˈmeɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: public adj., domain n.

Etymology: < public adj. + domain n. With sense 1 compare French domaine public (1719 in the passage translated in quot. 1720).

1. Land belonging to the public; common land.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > common or unenclosed

common1377

moor1386

common land1470

champestrea1492

common field1523

champaign1555

commons1583

champian1611

commonity1612

public domain1627

commonage1635

commoninga1661

range1707–8

open1733

common area1837

mark1849

veld1852

outdoors1859

wide (also great, vast) open spaces1910

1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 83 Cato the Censor, did take backe, as wee reade in Plutarch, brevi manu, what-so-ever had beene alienate of the Publicke Domaine, although manie yeares before.

1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. i. 38 They usually sold one Moiety of the Lands they conquered..and the other Moeity was added to the Public Domain [Fr. domaine public].

1774 J. Campbell Polit. Surv. Brit. II. iv. ii. 450 An exact Register was kept of all kind of cattle that fed on the public domain.

1819 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 4 695 Titles to land, constituting part of the public domain, acquired by grants under the provisions of existing laws by private persons, are certainly contracts of civil institution.

1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada v. 105 There they had taken up a rancho, a quarter-section of public domain.

1943 J. S. Huxley TVA vii. 50 Over a quarter of the 40,000 square miles of the Southern Highlands is or will shortly be public domain, under either Federal or State ownership.

1991 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 17 July 9/2 This has not slowed the legal trade from private lands or the cactus rustling from the public domain.

2. The state or condition of belonging or being generally available to all, esp. through not being subject to copyright. Chiefly in in the public domain.

ΚΠ

1897 Times 24 June 15/1 There are, indeed, some good stories,..while the subject of one of them..has done duty twenty times before, being..for years ‘in the public domain’.

1938 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 20 Apr. 20/1 First published in 1904, ‘Pinocchio’ is in the public domain for America.

1977 Listener 30 June 861/3 After years of legal wrangles and bankruptcy, Jacques Tati has managed to get his films back into the public domain.

1991 Computing 10 Jan. 6/2 The court ruled the company had repeatedly failed to disclose that dBase versions II and III were derived from a public domain program developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	public domain
释义	public domainn. Brit. /ˌpʌblɪk də(ʊ)ˈmeɪn/, U.S. /ˌpəblɪk doʊˈmeɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: public adj., domain n. Etymology: < public adj. + domain n. With sense 1 compare French domaine public (1719 in the passage translated in quot. 1720). 1. Land belonging to the public; common land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > common or unenclosed common1377 moor1386 common land1470 champestrea1492 common field1523 champaign1555 commons1583 champian1611 commonity1612 public domain1627 commonage1635 commoninga1661 range1707–8 open1733 common area1837 mark1849 veld1852 outdoors1859 wide (also great, vast) open spaces1910 1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 83 Cato the Censor, did take backe, as wee reade in Plutarch, brevi manu, what-so-ever had beene alienate of the Publicke Domaine, although manie yeares before. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. i. 38 They usually sold one Moiety of the Lands they conquered..and the other Moeity was added to the Public Domain [Fr. domaine public]. 1774 J. Campbell Polit. Surv. Brit. II. iv. ii. 450 An exact Register was kept of all kind of cattle that fed on the public domain. 1819 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 4 695 Titles to land, constituting part of the public domain, acquired by grants under the provisions of existing laws by private persons, are certainly contracts of civil institution. 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada v. 105 There they had taken up a rancho, a quarter-section of public domain. 1943 J. S. Huxley TVA vii. 50 Over a quarter of the 40,000 square miles of the Southern Highlands is or will shortly be public domain, under either Federal or State ownership. 1991 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 17 July 9/2 This has not slowed the legal trade from private lands or the cactus rustling from the public domain. 2. The state or condition of belonging or being generally available to all, esp. through not being subject to copyright. Chiefly in in the public domain. ΚΠ 1897 Times 24 June 15/1 There are, indeed, some good stories,..while the subject of one of them..has done duty twenty times before, being..for years ‘in the public domain’. 1938 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 20 Apr. 20/1 First published in 1904, ‘Pinocchio’ is in the public domain for America. 1977 Listener 30 June 861/3 After years of legal wrangles and bankruptcy, Jacques Tati has managed to get his films back into the public domain. 1991 Computing 10 Jan. 6/2 The court ruled the company had repeatedly failed to disclose that dBase versions II and III were derived from a public domain program developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1627
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