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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 yvlog Forms
- vٱ· adverb
- vٱ·Ա noun
- ܲȴ-vٱ adjective
- quasi-vٱ· adverb
- ܲ·vٱ adjective
- un·vٱ· adverb
- un·vٱ·Ա noun
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog 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
Newly released papers include Mr Hampshire's full witness statement, which he wrote in support of Mr Yang and sought to keep private.
Poker girls are officially described as waitresses, and are hired along with other staff like bartenders, chefs and parking valets to work at poker parties in private homes.
Though the agency provides licenses to private space companies wishing to launch rockets, environmental review is only a small part of the permitting process.
He had assisted in getting "relevant people unnoticed" in and out of Windsor for private meetings with the prince - and he was invited to his private 60th birthday dinner at his mansion.
He would make decisions spontaneously, in private, preferring to take advice from the friends he went drinking with, Kim said.
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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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