Unknown to others, privately. For example, They met in secret, or, as Shakespeare put it in Love's Labour's Lost (5:2): "One word in secret." [Second half of 1400s]
in secret
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The adverb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
in secrecy; not openly
Synonyms: secretly, on the Q.T., on the QT
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