Word Meaning

privy definition and meaning

a. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
a. Secret; clandestine.
a. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
a. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
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.
n. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

Crossword clues for privy

- Ah! We’re hearing and mindful
- In the know