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Look up: privy

  1. privy
    [adj] - hidden from general view or use
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Privy
    An outside toilet that may not have drainage, so may need to emptied manually.
    Found on http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/k

  3. Privy
    Priv'y adjective [ French privé , from Latin privatus . See Private .] 1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. ' Privee knights and squires.' Chaucer. 2. Secret; clandestine. ' A privee thief.' Chaucer. 3. Appropriated to retirement; priva ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/164

  4. Privy
    Priv'y noun ; plural Privies 1. (Law) 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 . Burrill. Wharton. 2. A nec ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/164

  5. privy
    secluded adjective hidden from general view or use; `a privy place to rest and think`; `a secluded romantic spot`; `a secret garden`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. Privy
    The term `privy` now refers to an outhouse. However, it is used with a different meaning in the term Privy council. privy adj 1 : personal, private 2 : secret 3 : admitted as one sharing in a secret
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy

  7. Privy
    • (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse. • (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. • (a.) Secret; clandestine. • (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. • (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an in...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. privy
    privy 1. Made a party to private or secret information; belonging or proper to a person or individual. 2. In law, one of the parties having an interest in the same matter. 3. Sharing knowledge of something secret or private: 'We were privy to the plans of the couple to run away and to get married.' 4. Relating to someone; especially, a British monar...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  9. privy
    1. a room equipped with toilet facilities
    2. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

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9 November 2009

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On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall was finally breached by jubilant Berliners , unifying a city that had been divided for over 30 years. The 28-mile (45 km) barrier dividing Germany's capital was built in 1961 to prevent East Berliners fleeing to the West, but as Communism in the Soviet Republic and Eastern Europe began to crumble, pressure mounted on the East German authorities to open the Berlin border. At midnight on 9th November East Germany's Communist rulers gave permission for gates along the Wall to be opened after hundreds of people converged on crossing points. They surged through cheering and shouting and were be met by jubilant West Berliners on the other side. read more

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