ALL meanings of privately
pri·vate
P p - adjective privately belonging to some particular person: private property. 1
- adjective privately pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons; individual; personal: for your private satisfaction. 1
- adjective privately confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned; confidential: a private meeting. 1
- adjective privately personal and not publicly expressed: one's private feelings. 1
- adjective privately not holding public office or employment: private citizens. 1
- adjective privately not of an official or public character; unrelated to one's official job or position: a former senator who has returned to private life; a college president speaking in his private capacity as a legal expert. 1
- adjective privately removed from or out of public view or knowledge; secret: private papers. 1
- adjective privately not open or accessible to the general public: a private beach. 1
- adjective privately undertaken individually or personally: private research. 1
- adjective privately without the presence of others; alone: Let's go into another room where we can be private. 1
- adjective privately solitary; secluded: He wants to meet us in a more private place. 1
- adjective privately preferring privacy; retiring: a very private person. 1
- adjective privately intimate; most personal: private behavior. 1
- adjective privately of, having, or receiving special hospital facilities, privileges, and services, especially a room of one's own and liberal visiting hours: a private room; a private patient. 1
- adjective privately of lowest military rank. 1
- adjective privately of, relating to, or coming from nongovernmental sources: private funding. 1
- noun privately a soldier of one of the three lowest enlisted ranks. 1
- noun privately privates, private parts. 1
- idioms privately in private, not publicly; secretly: The hearing will be conducted in private. 1
- adverb privately not in public 1
- adverb privately by an individual 1
- adverb privately inwardly, secretly 1
- adverb privately at a private school 1
- adverb privately If you buy or sell something privately, you buy it from or sell it to another person directly, rather than in a shop or through a business. 0