Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: privy
IPA transcription: [pɹ'ɪvi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom
    Meaning: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
  • Synonyms: outhouse, privy, earth-closet, jakes
    Meaning: a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
Usage examples
  • The old nurse who tended her mistress was privy to the damsel's inmost mind.
  • So with a little company of men, mounted on swift palfreys, and most privy to his mind, he arrived at Salerno.
  • Mr. Bonteen snarled a good deal, and the new Lord Privy Seal thought that the new President of the Board of Trade was not comfortable within himself.
  • The meanwhile King Mark within the castle of Tintagil avoided all his barons, and all other save such as were privy with him were avoided out of his chamber.
  • And so King Mark was armed in black, horse and all; and so at a privy postern they two issued out with their varlets with them, and rode till they came to that lake.