Thesaurus: privy

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1. a. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
2. a. Secret; clandestine.
3. a. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
4. a. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
5. 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.
6. n. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
7. adj. hidden from general view or use
8. adj. (followed by ‘to’) informed about something secret or not generally known
9. n. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
10. n. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
11. A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing;one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a personhaving an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which heis not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, isdistinguished from party. Burrill. Wharton.