Private(a.) 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.
Private(a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
Private(a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.
Private(a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.
Private(a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
Private(n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
Private(n.) Personal interest; particular business.
Private(n.) Privacy; retirement.
Private(n.) One not invested with a public office.
Private(n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
Private(n.) The private parts; the genitals.
Privateer(n.) An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
Privateer(n.) The commander of a privateer.
Privateer(v. i.) To cruise in a privateer.
Privateered(imp. & p. p.) of Privateer
Privateering(n.) Cruising in a privateer.
Privateering(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Privateer
Privately(adv.) In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others.
Privately(adv.) In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.
Privateness(n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.
Privateness(n.) The state of one not invested with public office.
Privation(n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
Privation(n.) The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations.
Privation(n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
Privative(a.) Causing privation; depriving.
Privative(a.) Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
Privative(a.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less.
Privative(n.) That of which the essence is the absence of something.
Privative(n.) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
Privative(n.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3.
Privatively(adv.) In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
Privativeness(n.) The state of being privative.
Words within privatenesses