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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.
EXPANDnot holding public office or employment: private citizens.
6.
not of an official or public character: private life.
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.
11.
solitary; secluded.
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.
COLLAPSEof, pertaining to, or coming from nongovernmental sources: private funding.
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in private, not publicly; secretly: The hearing will be conducted in private.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin prīvātus private, literally, taken away (from public affairs), special use of past participle of prīvāre to rob. See deprive, -ate1
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin prīvātus private, literally, taken away (from public affairs), special use of past participle of prīvāre to rob. See deprive, -ate1
Related forms
pri·vate·ly, adverb
pri·vate·ness, noun
qua·si-pri·vate, adjective
qua·si-pri·vate·ly, adverb
un·pri·vate, adjective
EXPANDSynonyms
2. singular, particular, peculiar. 10. sequestered, retired.
2. singular, particular, peculiar. 10. sequestered, retired.
Antonyms
2. general, public.
2. general, public.
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| private parts or privates (ˈpraɪvɪts) | |
| —pl n | |
| euphemistic terms for genitals | |
| privates or privates | |
| —pl n | |
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Word Origin & History
private
late 14c., from L. privatus "set apart, belonging to oneself" (not to the state), used in contrast to publicus, communis; originally pp. stem of privare "to separate, deprive," from privus "one's own, individual," from Old L. pri "before." Replaced O.E. syndrig. Grew popular 17c. as a preferred alternative
EXPANDto the snobbish overtones in common. Meaning "not open to the public" is from late 14c. Of persons, "not holding public office" it is recorded from early 15c. Private soldier "one below the rank of a non-commissioned officer" is from 1570s. Private parts "the pudenda" is from 1785. Private enterprise first recorded 1844. Privacy is first recorded mid-15c. Privatization is attested from 1959; privatize first recorded 1968.
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