Private

adjective
1.
belonging to some particular person:
private property.
2.
pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal:
for your private satisfaction.
3.
confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential:
a private meeting.
4.
personal and not publicly expressed:
one’s private feelings.
5.
not holding public office or employment:
private citizens.
6.
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.
7.
removed from or out of public view or knowledge; secret:
private papers.
8.
not open or accessible to the general public:
a private beach.
9.
undertaken individually or personally:
private research.
10.
without the presence of others; alone:
Let’s go into another room where we can be private.
11.
solitary; secluded:
He wants to meet us in a more private place.
12.
preferring privacy; retiring:
a very private person.
13.
intimate; most personal:
private behavior.
14.
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.
15.
of lowest military rank.
16.
of, relating to, or coming from nongovernmental sources:
private funding.
noun
17.
a soldier of one of the three lowest enlisted ranks.
18.
privates, private parts.
Idioms
19.
in private, not publicly; secretly:
The hearing will be conducted in private.
adjective
1.
not widely or publicly known: they had private reasons for the decision
2.
confidential; secret: a private conversation
3.
not for general or public use: a private bathroom
4.
(prenominal) individual; special: my own private recipe
5.
(prenominal) having no public office, rank, etc: a private man
6.
(prenominal) denoting a soldier of the lowest military rank: a private soldier
7.
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
8.
(of a place) retired; sequestered; not overlooked
9.
(of a person) reserved; uncommunicative
10.
in private, in secret; confidentially
noun
11.
a soldier of the lowest rank, sometimes separated into qualification grades, in many armies and marine corps: private first class
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