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Grammar : Adj
Spell : priv-uh-lijd, priv-lijd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɪv ə lɪdʒd, ˈprɪv lɪdʒd



Definition of privileged

Origin :
  • late 14c. of things; mid-15c. of persons, past participle adjective from privilege (v.).
  • adj favored, elite
  • adj allowed, exempt
  • adj confidential, secret
Example sentences :
  • I have been privileged to take them home and arrange them in my room and Dana's.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • The mountain tops are only noble because from them we are privileged to behold the plains.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • But what the privileged orders can no longer prevent, they are determined to stultify.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • A million of its inhabitants are members of the privileged classes.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • My sex, you may have heard, is privileged to change of mind.
  • Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
  • I trust that an unbecoming jealousy of my privileged position had nothing to do with it.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • Vienna was, in that respect a true den of privileged thieves.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • Society was a military aristocracy, the Samurai the privileged class.
  • Extract from : « Where Half The World Is Waking Up » by Clarence Poe
  • With all my discouragements it seemed to me that I was privileged to do a little fine lying.
  • Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
  • Auntie paid for it, and so she's privileged to criticise, you know.
  • Extract from : « Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge » by Pemberton Ginther

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