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English Dictionary: Private	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Private
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
private adj 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 struggle to maintain a private life" Antonym(s): public concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters" concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath" Synonym(s): individual(a), private not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts" Synonym(s): secret, private n an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value" Synonym(s): private, buck private, common soldier
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --B. Jonson. 3. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] [bd]Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private.[b8] --Shak. 4. One not invested with a public office. [Archaic] What have kings, that privates have not too? --Shak. 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.