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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

... actress. Miss Adams herself had said so. There was no fault with the opportunities for study at Miss Elkins', only with the interest of the girls. She herself was working hard at French and German and physical culture and was having some special private teaching in elocution by a master recommended by ...

— The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World • Margaret Vandercook

... is one of the imperial institutions which the third republic accepted and continued. The first president, however, did not revive it. "M. Thiers never had a military household," M. Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, his private secretary and fidus achates writes me; "however, in order to honor the army, he had two orderlies." But when Marshal MacMahon became president in 1873, it was only natural that he should surround himself with soldiers. ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 • Various

... was he to pursue it while those gibbets stood? While their shadows lay even on the chapter table, and darkened the faces of his most forward associates? That for a moment staggered the priest; and had not private hatred, ever renewed by the touch of the scar on his brow, fed the fire of bigotry he had yielded, as the rabble of Angers were yielding, reluctant and scowling, to the hand which held the city in its grip. But to have come so far on the wings of hate, and to do nothing! To have come avowedly ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... welfare of the city they had so hardly won. It was decided to elect a king who should remain in the Holy Land, and protect the city against the attacks of the infidels. After long consideration, prayer, and inquiry into the private character of the various princes, Godfrey de Bouillon was chosen as possessing in the highest degree the requisite qualities of virtue, piety, wisdom, and valor. In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ...

— With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene

... man in the town named Mr. Carnal-Security, and he brought this corporation into great, grievous bondage. When Emmanuel perceived that through the policy of Mr. Carnal-Security the hearts of men were chilled and abated in their practical love for him, he in private manner withdrew himself first from his palace, then to the gate of the town, and so away from Mansoul till they should more ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

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