Definition of Privileged

Privileged

of Privilege

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.

Related Definitions:

Advantage, Enjoying, Immunity, Invested, Of, Or, Peculiar, Privilege, Right, With

Privileged Quotations

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.
Jimmy Buffett

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
Orlando Bloom

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Spiro T. Agnew

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
Norman Borlaug

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.
David Beckham

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
Martin Sheen

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.
Mikhail Bakunin

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
Twyla Tharp

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Twyla Tharp

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
Robert Sternberg

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
Daniel Radcliffe

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
Marco Rubio

I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission.
Claude Nicollier

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
Bianca Jagger

I was privileged to serve as a judge.
Kenneth Starr

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
Mortimer Zuckerman

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
Christiane Amanpour

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
Hugo Chavez

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda Marcos

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
Matt Blunt

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
Danny Glover

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.
Enya

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
Bobby Scott

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.
Derek Jacobi

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
Tony Curtis

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Privileged Translations

privileged in Dutch is bevoorrecht, voorrangs-
privileged in German is privilegierten, privilegierte, bevorrechtigt
privileged in Portuguese is privilegiado
privileged in Spanish is privilegiado

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