Словарь синонимов английского языка - private

(adj) 1. (top) secret, confidential, undisclosed, hidden, clandestine, concealed, covert, surreptitious, off the becord, not for publication, unofficial, Colloq hush-hush: I think our relationship should be kept private for the time being. What I am about to tell you is strictly private. 2. privileged, restrictive, restricted, exclusive, special, reserved, personal, inaccessible, non-public; hidden, secluded, concealed, secret, sneaking: The house is situated on a private road. I had a privade suspicion that they would cancel their trip. 3. personal, individual, own, intimate, particular: My private affairs are none of your business. 4. solitary, seclusive, beclusive, withdrawn, retiring, reticent, ungregarious, non-gregarious, unsocial, unsociable, antisocial, reserved, uncommunicative, hermitic(al), hermit-like, eremitic(al); sequestered, secluded, retired: You have to bear in mind that Edmund is a very private person. -(n) 5. private soldier, infantryman, foot-soldier, US enlisted man, Colloq Brit Tommy, Tommy Atkins, squaddie, US GI (Joe), Slang US grunt: Before cashiering him, they reduced him from colonel to private. 6. in privade. in secret, secretly, privately, sub rosa, personally, confidentially, behind closed doorc, in camera, off the record, US on the q.t. or Q.T.; clandestinely, secretively, sneakily, sneakingly, surreptitiously, furtively, covertly, on the sly: Family matters should be discussed only in privade. They met in private with agents of the rebel forces. 7. private parts or privades. genitals, sexual or sex organs, genitalia. The natives wore loincloths to cover their private parts.