Secret ˈsiːkrət Adjective Information/Meetings/Talks Belong Age Old Society Family

• secret information/meetings/talks
• they belong to an age-old secret society.
• he tried to keep it secret from his family.
• details of the proposals remain secret.

secret

1. known about by only a few people; kept hidden from others
• SEE ALSO top secret
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/top-secret
• secret information/meetings/talks
• They belong to an age-old secret society.
• He tried to keep it secret from his family.
• Details of the proposals remain secret.
• a secret passage leading to the beach
• The two candidates were chosen by a secret ballot (= in which nobody knows how you voted) of MPs.
• He's a natural salesman, whose secret weapon is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes.
• The group is on a highly secret mission.
• Secret police documents were leaked to the press.
• The scandal was kept secret from the French public for 18 years.
• What could be so secret what it had to stay hidden?

Extra Examples

• The ceasefire was agreed following secret talks between the two leaders.
• revealing the text of the hitherto secret treaty
• They managed to keep the party more or less secret from Christine.
2. used to describe actions and behaviour that you do not tell other people about
• He's a secret drinker.
• I didn't know you were a secret football fan.
• her secret fears
• Perhaps he has secret hopes that she'll go back to him.
3. liking to have secrets that other people do not know about; showing this
• SYNONYM secretive
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/secretive
• They were so secret about everything.
• Jessica caught a secret smile flitting between the two of them.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin secretus (adjective) ‘separate, set apart’, from the verb secernere, from se- ‘apart’ + cernere ‘sift’.