Dictionary Entry
privy
privy is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
- 2adjective
Secret; clandestine.
- 3adjective
Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
- 4adjective
Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
- 7noun
a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
- 8noun
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- 9adjective
(followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known
"privy to the details of the conspiracy"
- 10adjective
hidden from general view or use
"a privy place to rest and think"
"a secluded romantic spot"
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