Private
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.
Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.
Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.
Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
Personal interest; particular business.
Privacy; retirement.
One not invested with a public office.
A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
The private parts; the genitals.
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Private Quotations
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma Gandhi
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlein
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
John Steinbeck
Private Translations
private in Afrikaans is privaat, privaat-
private in Danish is privat
private in Finnish is yksityinen
private in German is privat
private in Italian is privato
private in Latin is privatus
private in Portuguese is confidencial
private in Spanish is privado
private in Swedish is enskild, menig, privat
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