PRIVATE meaning: Not accessible by the public

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word private:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

private: Merriam-Webster.com
private, private: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
private: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
private: Collins English Dictionary
private: Vocabulary.com
Private, private: Wordnik
private: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Private, private: Wiktionary
private: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
private: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
private: Infoplease Dictionary
private: Dictionary.com
private (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
private: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Private (United States), Private (Web series), Private (band), Private (disambiguation), Private (film), Private (magazine), Private (novel), Private (novel series), Private (rank), Private (rocket), Private (web series), Private: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Private: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
private: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
private: Rhymezone
private: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
private: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
private: Free Dictionary
private: Mnemonic Dictionary
private: Dictionary/thesaurus
private: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Private (disambiguation), private: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Private (Java), Private (disambiguation), private: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Private (disambiguation), private: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

private: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

private, private, private: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
▸ adjective:  Relating to an individual or group of individuals outside of their official roles; often, sensitive or personal.
▸ adjective:  Not publicly known or divulged; secret, confidential; (of a message) intended only for a specific person or group.
▸ adjective:  Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible.
▸ adjective:  Not in governmental office or employment.
▸ adjective:  Secretive; reserved.
▸ adjective:  (finance) Not traded by the public.
▸ adjective:  Of a room in a medical facility, not shared with another patient.
▸ adjective:  (UK, of schools) Financially reliant on fees rather than government funding.
▸ adjective:  (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.
▸ adjective:  (philosophy) Of the mind or language, not in principle experienceable, knowable, or understandable by others.
▸ noun:  A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.
▸ noun:  A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.
▸ noun:  (euphemistic, in the plural) The genitals.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
▸ noun:  (usually in the plural) A private lesson.
▸ verb:  (Internet, transitive) To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently).
▸ noun:  (military) Alternative letter-case form of private [A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.]

Opposite:

public, open, communal, shared, accessible

Types:

public, semi-private, quasi-private, semi-public, quasi-public, more...

Phrases:

private sector, In Private, private property, private life, private enterprise, more...

Adjectives:

public, young, more, old, lowest, personal, humblest, british, poor, full, former

Colors:

black, gray, burgundy, forest green, charcoal, more...

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