PRIVACY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Privacy

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/prˈaɪvəsi/ Listen

noun

Privacy n. (pl. privacies)

The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. "Her sacred privacies all open lie."

Concealment of what is said or done.

A private matter; a secret.

See Privity, 2. (Obs.)

See images of 'Privacy'

Etymology of 'Privacy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Privacy" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was descending the stairs, and she blew him upstairs again and shut the door of the bedroom and pushed him into the privacy of the boudoir. ...

— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett

... cold comfort to Carrie, who was painfully conscious of having been a particularly silly school-girl just then. So she gave a groan and lay down again, wishing she had not expressed her views quite so freely, and had kept Wanda for the privacy ...

— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott

... became a man, one of ourselves, and pitched His tent in close amongst our tents.There's only a stretch of canvas between Him and any of us. He wanted to get close, close enough to help, yet never infringing upon the privacy of our tents, only coming in as He was invited. But He has remarkable ears. A whisper reaches Him at once. And He is out of His tent into ours to help at the faintest call. That was why He pitched His tent in amongst ours, ...

— Quiet Talks on John's Gospel • S. D. Gordon

... publisher of this day would call one fair-sized edition of "The Square of Sevens," printed for Antrobus by the great John Gowne, of The Mask book-shop, has ever appeared. And, to account for the semi-privacy surrounding the little work, must be set forth the dolesome incident of a printing-house fire burning, "all except about a dozen or so of copies," before there had been any "distribution of the Book" among the author's "Friends, Male or, Female, or to ...

— The Square of Sevens - An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note • E. Irenaeus Stevenson

... verandah that old Nelson meant, the one which was the living-room of the house, and had split-rattan screens of the very finest quality. The east verandah, sacred to his own privacy, puffing out of cheeks, and other signs of perplexed thinking, was fitted with stout blinds of sailcloth. The north verandah was not a verandah at all, really. It was more like a long balcony. ...

— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad

More quotes...