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# privately

adverb (privately)

«privately» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Without other people being there or knowing; in secret or alone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#m1)
2. In your own thoughts, not said out loud: «privately, she was scared». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#m2)
3. Owned or paid for by a person or company, not the government: «a privately owned park». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#m3)
4. A book that is privately printed is printed in small numbers for friends and is not sold in shops. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and safety: talk privately to a teacher about a worry; private parts of your body are private. In stories, characters speak privately or think privately. Phrases: «speak privately», «privately owned».

### Examples

- Can I talk to you privately, Miss? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x1)
- She spoke to him privately after class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x2)
- Privately, I thought the film was boring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x3)
- The forest is privately owned, so we can't go in. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x4)
- He changed privately in the cubicle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x5)
- Some schools are run privately. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x6)
- Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's Birds of Omen in Shetland (privately printed, 1893). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x7)

### Note

Adverb of «private». Privately is different from a bad secret: if something worries or hurts you, telling a trusted adult privately is right, even if someone said to keep it secret.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «privately» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«privately» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/privately.html) on Mova free.