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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

... but the girl-widow of scarcely nineteen years had many difficulties with which to contend. As a devout Roman Catholic, she had to face the relentless opposition of Knox and the congregation, who objected even to her private exercise of her own faith. As the representative of the French alliance, now but a dead cause, she was confronted by an English party which included not only her avowed enemies but many of her real or pretended friends. Her brother, the Lord James Stewart, ...

— An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) • Robert S. Rait

... common field and all share in the harvest. For a time all goes well. But mutterings begin to be heard. It is found that some are unwilling to do their share of the work. It becomes manifest to the thoughtful that community of property must be given up and private ownership be introduced, or else that the common work must be regulated. In the latter case, government is established by the very act of regulation; they are establishing justice. If they resolve to adopt private ownership, industry will diversify, they will begin to spread out over the ...

— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary

... to a desperado of wide reputation and who kept his "private graveyard," as the phrase went, was marked and cheerfully accorded. When he moved along the sidewalk in his excessively long-tailed frock coat, shiny stump-toed boots, and with dainty little slouch hat, tipped over his left eye, the small-fry roughs made room for his majesty; when he entered the ...

— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches - An Autobiography • Edwin Eastman

... resources ready; many small means of fastening himself both on his lordship's private and public interests. He determined to begin first with the despatch which he had been deciphering. With this view he led Mr. Percy to speak of the shipwreck, and of M. de Tourville. Lord Oldborough's attention was immediately awakened; and when Mr. Falconer perceived ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. VII - Patronage • Maria Edgeworth

... standing by itself, a hundred feet back from the street, on rising ground, and would be creditable to any European or American city. It already contains about a hundred and thirty thousand volumes, and is being constantly added to by public and private bequests. The interior arrangements of the library are excellent, affording ample room for books and all needed accommodation for the public. In these respects it is superior to both the Boston and Astor libraries. Under the same roof is a museum containing ...

— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

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