1 (sometimes disapproving) having special rights or advantages that most people do not have:
Those in authority were in a privileged position. * She comes from a privileged background. * In those days, only a privileged few had the vote.
2 [notbeforenoun] having an opportunity to do sth that makes you feel proud
SYNHONOURED:
We are privileged to welcome you as our speaker this evening.
3 (law) (of information) known only to a few people and legally protected so that it does not have to be made public
SYNCONFIDENTIAL:
I'm sorry, that's privileged information.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for privileged is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is privileged a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, privileged is tagged as adjective.
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