semiprivate

1. 1.

   confined to a small number of hospital patients

   “semiprivate room”

   Similarprivate

Questions about semiprivate

What does semiprivate mean?

semiprivate means "confined to a small number of hospital patients".

How many syllables are in semiprivate?

semiprivate has 4 syllables and divides as se-mi-pri-vate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is semiprivate a common word?

semiprivate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.