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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024se•cret /ˈsikrɪt/USA pronunciation adj. - done or made without the knowledge of others:a secret meeting.
- kept from general knowledge:a secret password.
- hidden from sight;
concealed:a secret entrance.
n. [countable] - something secret, hidden, or concealed:kept several secrets from her husband.
- a reason or explanation not easily seen or understood:What is the secret of her success?
- a method, plan, etc., known to a few:a trade secret.
Idioms- Idioms in secret, so as to remain hidden;
secretly:They met in secret.
se•cret•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024se•cret (sē′krit),USA pronunciation adj. - done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others:secret negotiations.
- kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged:a secret password.
- faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential;
close-mouthed;
reticent. - designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation:a secret drawer; the secret police.
- secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn:a secret hiding place.
- beyond ordinary human understanding;
esoteric. - Government(of information, a document, etc.)
- bearing the classification secret.
- limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
n. - something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- a mystery:the secrets of nature.
- a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
- a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few:the secret of happiness; a trade secret.
- Governmenta classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Cf. classification (def. 5).
- Religion(cap.) [Liturgy.]a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.
- in secret, unknown to others;
in private;
secretly:A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.
- Latin sēcrētus hidden, origin, originally past participle of sēcernere to secern
- Old French secret
- Middle English secrette 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged clandestine, hidden, concealed, covert.
- 1, 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged private, confidential.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged secretive.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged occult, obscure, mysterious.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged open, manifest.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: secret /ˈsiːkrɪt/ adj - kept hidden or separate from the knowledge of others
Related adjective(s): cryptic - known only to initiates: a secret password
- hidden from general view or use: a secret garden
- able or tending to keep things private or to oneself
- operating without the knowledge of outsiders: a secret society
n - something kept or to be kept hidden
- something unrevealed; mystery
- an underlying explanation, reason, etc, that is not apparent: the secret of success
- a method, plan, etc, known only to initiates
- a variable prayer, part of the Mass, said by the celebrant after the offertory and before the preface
Etymology: 14th Century: via Old French from Latin sēcrētus concealed, from sēcernere to sift; see secernˈsecretly adv |