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private
[ prahy-vit ]
adjective
- belonging to some particular person:
private property.
- pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal:
for your private satisfaction.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms: ,
- confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential:
a private meeting.
- personal and not publicly expressed:
one's private feelings.
- not holding public office or employment:
private citizens.
- not of an official or public character; unrelated to one's official job or position:
a former senator who has returned to private life;
a college president speaking in his private capacity as a legal expert.
- removed from or out of public view or knowledge; secret:
private papers.
- not open or accessible to the general public:
a private beach.
- undertaken individually or personally:
private research.
- without the presence of others; alone:
Let's go into another room where we can be private.
Synonyms:
He wants to meet us in a more private place.
- preferring privacy; retiring:
a very private person.
- intimate; most personal:
private behavior.
- of, having, or receiving special hospital facilities, privileges, and services, especially a room of one's own and liberal visiting hours:
a private room;
a private patient.
- of lowest military rank.
- of, relating to, or coming from nongovernmental sources:
private funding.
noun
- a soldier of one of the three lowest enlisted ranks.
- privates. private parts.
private
/ ˈɪɪ /
adjective
- not widely or publicly known
they had private reasons for the decision
- confidential; secret
a private conversation
- not for general or public use
a private bathroom
- prenominal individual; special
my own private recipe
- prenominal having no public office, rank, etc
a private man
- prenominal denoting a soldier of the lowest military rank
a private soldier
- of, relating to, or provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
the private sector
private housing
- (of a place) retired; sequestered; not overlooked
- (of a person) reserved; uncommunicative
- in privatein secret; confidentially
noun
- a soldier of the lowest rank, sometimes separated into qualification grades, in many armies and marine corps
private first class
Derived Forms
- ˈٱ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- vٱ· adverb
- vٱ·Ա noun
- ܲȴ-vٱ adjective
- quasi-vٱ· adverb
- ܲ·vٱ adjective
- un·vٱ· adverb
- un·vٱ·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of private1
Idioms and Phrases
- in private, not publicly; secretly:
The hearing will be conducted in private.
More idioms and phrases containing private
In addition to the idiom beginning with private , also see free (private) enterprise ; in private .Example Sentences
Treatments to remove wrinkles and tone arms, thighs and stomachs are driving a rise in cosmetic surgery, the latest figures from UK private clinics suggest.
The deal would have several American venture capital firms, private equity funds and tech firms invest in a company that would control the app's U.S. operations, CNN reported.
At least four private schools burned in the Palisades, including St. Matthew’s Parish School and the Village School, both of which have relocated to office buildings in Santa Monica.
After Hitler departed, Schacht asked the other attendees to deposit as much money as they could into his private trust, which the Nazis could use however they liked heading into the March 5 election.
Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much about her grandfather, and paid for the private test to see if it threw up anything unusual.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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