private

1. Confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy (synset 301864034)
   "a private place"; "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"
   also:

   • esoteric - confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
   • personal - concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
   similar to:

   • clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby - befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
   • cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered - providing privacy or seclusion
   • close - confined to specific persons
   • closed-door - not open to the public
   • confidential, secret - (of information) given in confidence or in secret
   • confidential - entrusted with private information and the confidence of another
   • insular - suggestive of the isolated life of an island
   • nonpublic - not invested with or related to prominent position or status etc.
   • backstage, offstage - concealed from public view or attention
   • one-on-one - directly between two individuals
   • privy, secluded, secret - hidden from general view or use
   • semiprivate - confined to a small number of hospital patients
   • head-to-head, tete-a-tete - involving two persons; intimately private
   • toffee-nosed - snobbish; pretentiously superior
2. Concerning things deeply private and personal (synset 301773890)
   "intimate correspondence"; "private family matters"
   similar to: personal - concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
   same as: intimate
3. Concerning one person exclusively (synset 301772598)
   "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"
   similar to: personal - concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
   same as: individual
4. Not expressed (synset 300955371)
   "secret (or private) thoughts"
   similar to: inward - relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts
   same as: secret

1. An enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines (synset 110496052)
   "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
   is a type of: enlisted man - a male enlisted person in the armed forces
   same as: buck private, common soldier

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