Privacy Meaning
/ˈpɹɪv.ə.si/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.
nounFreedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life.
Sentence Examples
Reporters do not hesitate to intrude into people's privacy.
By and large, reporters don't hesitate to intrude on one's privacy.
She was longing for some peace and privacy.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She closed the bedroom curtains to have some ____ while changing her clothes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She valued her ____ and rarely shared personal details with anyone outside her close circle.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English private English -cy English privacy From private + -cy.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either."
— 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day."
— 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
"It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]"
— 1680, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She closed the bedroom curtains to have some ____ while changing her clothes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She valued her ____ and rarely shared personal details with anyone outside her close circle.