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private life (plural private lives)
- The aspects of one's life that are personal, such as family, friends and other personal relationships, as opposed to the elements that make up one's public or professional life.
- Synonym: personal life
- Antonyms: public life, work life
- Holonyms: life; daily life, real life
- Meronyms: dream life, nightlife, love life, sex life
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)[1]
- The researchers are teasing out fine details of the yaki’s private life.
1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
aspect of one's life that are personal
- Chinese:
- Danish: privatliv n
- Dutch: privéleven (nl) n
- Finnish: yksityiselämä (fi)
- French: vie privée (fr) f
- German: Privatleben (de) n
- Hebrew: חיים פרטיים m pl (khayím pratiyím)
- Hungarian: magánélet (hu)
- Italian: vita privata f
- Norwegian:
- Old English: sundorlīf n
- Polish: życie prywatne n, życie osobiste n
- Russian: ли́чная жизнь (ru) f (líčnaja žiznʹ), ча́стная жизнь f (částnaja žiznʹ)
- Spanish: vida privada f
- Swedish: privatliv (sv) n