secret

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Alternative spellings 1.4.2 Synonyms 1.4.3 Antonyms 1.4.4 Derived terms 1.4.5 Related terms 1.4.6 Translations 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Usage notes 1.5.2 Quotations 1.5.3 Derived terms 1.5.4 Dictionary notes 1.6 References 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Adjective 2.3 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin sēcrētus.

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• IPA: /ˈsiːkɹət/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Hyphenation: se‧cret

[edit] Noun

secret (plural secrets)

1. Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from later 14th c.]

   Can you keep a secret? So can I.

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secret (comparative more secret, superlative most secret)

1. Being or kept hidden. [from late 14th c.]

   We went down a secret passage.

[edit] Alternative spellings

• secrette (obsolete)

[edit] Synonyms

• private
• confidential
• concealed

[edit] Antonyms

• overt

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[edit] Related terms

• secrete
• secretion

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to secret (third-person singular simple present secrets, present participle secretting (UK) or secreting (US), simple past and past participle secretted (UK) or secreted (US))

1. (transitive) To make or keep secret. [from late 16th c.]
   • 1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26

     [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.

   • 1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.

     Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.

   • 1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50

     To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.

[edit] Usage notes

• All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage.
• The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb secrete.

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• For more examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

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• secrete

[edit] Dictionary notes

• Most other dictionaries do not have an entry for the verb sense of secret; all of those that do list it mark it as obsolete, seeing it as having been superseded by its derivation secrete.

[edit] References

• “†ˈsecret, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
    Tagged as obsolete.  Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ˈsecret and secrete v.”
• “Se"cret (?), v. t.” listed on page 1,301 of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
    Se"cret (?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs.] Bacon.

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[edit] Adjective

secret m. (f. secrète, m. plural secrets, f. plural secrètes)

1. secret

[edit] Noun

secret m. (plural secrets)

1. secret