Privy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret: was privy to classified information.
  • adj. Belonging or proper to a person, such as the British sovereign, in a private rather than official capacity.
  • adj. Secret; concealed.
  • n. An outdoor toilet; an outhouse.
  • n. A toilet.
  • n. Law One of the parties having an interest in the same matter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Private, exclusive; that is one's own.
  • adj. Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • adj. With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
  • n. An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
  • n. A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private.
  • adj. Secret; clandestine.
  • adj. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
  • adj. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
  • n. A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
  • n. A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Private; pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public: as, the privy purse.
  • Secret; not seen openly; not made known in public.
  • Private; appropriated to retirement; sequestered; retired.
  • Privately knowing; admitted to the participation with another in knowledge of a secret transaction: generally with to.
  • Intimate; familiar; on confidential terms; well known.
  • Cognizant (of), acquainted (with).
  • n. In law, one standing in a relation of privily to another. See privity, 7.
  • n. A secret friend.
  • n. A necessary.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
  • adj. (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known
  • n. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
  • adj. hidden from general view or use
  • Equivalent
    informed    private    privy signet   
    Hypernym
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    Variant
    privier    priviest   
    Synonym
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    private    secret    clandestine    partaker    outhouse    backhouse    accessory   
    Rhyme
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    divvy    kivi   
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