<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>belonging to some particular person: private property</li><li>pertaining to or affecting a particular person or a small group of persons: individual, personal: for your private satisfaction</li><li>confined to or intended only for the persons immediately concerned: confidential: a private meeting</li><li>personal and not publicly expressed: one's private feelings</li><li>not holding public office or employment: private citizens</li><li>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</li><li>removed from or out of public view or knowledge; secret: private papers</li><li>not open or accessible to the general public: a private beach</li><li>undertaken individually or personally: private research</li><li>without the presence of others; alone: Let's go into another room where we can be private</li><li>preferring privacy; retiring: a very private person</li><li>intimate; most personal: private behavior</li><li>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</li><li>of lowest military rank</li><li>of, relating to, or coming from nongovernmental sources: private funding</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a soldier of one of the three lowest enlisted ranks: privates</li><li>private parts</li></ul>