Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A private or intimate friend; a court favorite.
  • noun A private soldier or inferior (non-commissioned) officer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant.

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  • noun obsolete A private friend; a confidant.

Etymologies

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Spanish, from Latin privatus.

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  • He bears a very profligate character as to women (for I inquired particularly about that), and is Mr. Lovelace's more especial privado, with whom he holds a regular correspondence...

    Mr. Brand to John Harlowe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    January 1, 2008