private

[priĀ·vate]

Something private is something you don't want to share; it's for your eyes only. Your diary entries and your bank account balance might both be kept private.

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Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

Noun
an enlisted man of the lowest rank; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"

Adjective S.
not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"

Adjective S.
concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"

Adjective S.
concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters"

Adjective
confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures strug

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a.
Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

a.
Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.

a.
Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.

a.
Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.

a.
Having secret or private knowledge; privy.

n.
A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

n.
Personal interest; particular business.

n.
Privacy; retirement.

n.
One not invested with a public office.

n.
A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.

n.
The private parts; the genitals.


Private

Pri"vate (?; 48), a. [L. privatus apart from the state, peculiar to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward (hence, alone, single) and akin to prae before. See Prior, a., and cf. Deprive, Privy, a.] 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary. 2. Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests.
3. Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. Shak.
A private person may arrest a felon.
4. Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding. 5. Having secret or private knowledge; privy. [Obs.] Private act ∨ statute, a statute exclusively for the settlement of private and personal interests, of which courts do not take judicial notice; -- opposed to a general law, which operates on the whole community. -- Private nuisance ∨ wrong. See Nuisance. -- Private soldier. See Private, n., 5. -- Private way, a right of private passage over another man's ground. Kent.

Private

Pri"vate , n. 1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.] Shak. 2. Personal interest; particular business.[Obs.]
Nor must I be unmindful of my private.
3. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] "Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private." Shak. 4. One not invested with a public office. [Archaic]
What have kings, that privates have not too?
5. (Mil.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer. Macaulay. 6. pl. The private parts; the genitals. In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.

Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

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Usage Examples

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

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