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

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
2. adjective. Secret; clandestine.
3. adjective. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
4. adjective. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
7. noun. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

   Synonyms: jakes, outhouse

8. noun. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

   Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet

9. adjective. (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known

   "privy to the details of the conspiracy"

10. adjective. hidden from general view or use

    "a privy place to rest and think"

    "a secluded romantic spot"

    Synonyms: secluded, secret

Synonyms

jakes, outhouse, bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet, secluded, secret

Common word forms

privier, privies, privily, priviest

Words from these letters

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