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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" Antonym: public.

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

... out, will yer son?" puffed the red-faced Buck Bradley. "It's my private opinion," he went on, in a voice intended to be confidential, but which was merely a subdued bellow, "that that chaffer of mine ...

— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering

... the request of His Excellency the President) read the following extract from a private letter from Sir Roderick Murchison, the president of the Royal Geographical Society, dated May ...

— Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria - In search of Burke and Wills • William Landsborough

... and he made none. At dinner time he went home, and sat at the table, silent and gloomy; but he scarcely tasted food. After the meal, he returned to his store—a faint hope springing up in his mind that Edward might have submitted the aid he had asked for so humbly by private hand, or through some broker in the city, and that it would yet arrive in time to save him. Alas! this proved a vain hope. Three o'clock came, and the unredeemed note ...

— The Iron Rule - or, Tyranny in the Household • T. S. Arthur

... American, fitted up a miniature hospital in the cellar of a house in ruined Pervyse. They were within three minutes of the trenches. Here, as soon as the soldiers were wounded, they could be brought for immediate treatment. A young private had received a severe lip wound. Unskilful army medical handling had left it gangrened, and it had swollen. His face was on the way to being marred for life. Mrs. Knocker treated him every few hours for ten days—and brought ...

— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

... Anna, and scouts went out in all directions in search of him. On the following day he was discovered in the long grass near the edge of a ravine, on the other side of the river. He tried to hide in the grass, but was compelled to crawl out and surrender. At first he claimed to be a private, but his jewels betrayed him, and then he said he was one of Santa Anna's aides-de-camp. But no one believed him, and he was taken into the Texan camp without delay. Here there was a most dramatic scene between General Houston and his noted prisoner. Houston, ...

— For the Liberty of Texas • Edward Stratemeyer

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