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Private

adjective

Confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy. "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"

Concerning things deeply private and personal. "Private family matters"

Concerning one person exclusively. Synonym: individual. "Each room has a private bath"

Not expressed. Synonym: secret.

noun

An enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines. Synonyms: buck private, common soldier.

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"Private" Quotes from Famous Books

... not, however, get permission to absent myself from Paris for the time I might require till the end of last April. I had meanwhile sought all private means of ascertaining what Frenchmen of rank and station were in that capital in the autumn of 1849. Among the list of the very few such Messieurs I fixed upon one as the most likely to be the mysterious Achille—Achille was, indeed, his ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... time, were recalled to her remembrance. They might mean nothing, or they might mean much. In the latter case, Jacqueline could not understand them very well. But she knew he had called her "Clotilde," that he had even dared to say "thou" to her in private—these were things she knew of her own knowledge. Her pulse beat quicker as she thought of them; her head burned. In that studio, where she had passed so many happy hours, had Marien and her stepmother ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... he proposed to his master, very shortly, the assassination of Borgia by means of the lovely Molly. Let her, at a private banquet, inveigle him to ...

— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... is that belt of his, which it has always been understood between us should be kept perfectly private on account of its value. It ought not to have been taken to Professor ...

— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn

... do better than that! From the very start, now, we must nip off the evil bud that might later blossom into private property and wealth, exploitation and misery. There shall be no rich men in our world now and no slaves. No idlers and no oppressed. 'Service' must be our watchword, and our motto 'Each for all and all ...

— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

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