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# privately

«privately» in Mova's school dictionary: **Without other people being there or knowing; in secret or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (privately)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Without other people being there or knowing; in secret or alone. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#m4)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x1)
- She spoke to him privately after class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x2)
- Privately, I thought the film was boring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x3)
- The forest is privately owned, so we can't go in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x4)
- He changed privately in the cubicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/#x5)
- Some schools are run privately. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Invitations are given privately or to the whole class, not in front of children who are not invited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/8/)
- [If a parent's joke-shouting in public bugs you, you can tell them privately.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/38/)
- [A question asked privately, politely and with evidence is far more likely to be welcomed than a public "you're wrong".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/17/)
- [Correcting a teacher privately instead of in front of everyone is kind and is usually welcomed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/34-teachers-who-listen-teachers-who-get-cross-and-when-the-teacher-is-right-after-all/19/)
- [A pet name is a loving nickname from family; asking a parent privately not to use it in public is fair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/11-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «privately» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/privately/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.