Definition of Privy
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(a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
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(a.) Secret; clandestine.
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(a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
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(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
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(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.
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(n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Antonyms of Privy
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Homophones of Privy
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