PRIVATE

Definitions

1. 1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.] Shak.
2. 2. Personal interest; particular business.[Obs.] Nor must I be unmindful of my private. B. Jonson.
3. 3. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] "Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private." Shak.
4. 4. One not invested with a public office. [Archaic] What have kings, that privates have not too Shak.
5. 5. A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer. Macaulay.
6. 6. The private parts; the genitals. In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.