Secret vs. Secretary — What's the Difference?

Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others

A secretary, administrative professional, or personal assistant is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication, or organizational skills. However this role should not be confused with the role of an executive secretary, who differs from a personal assistant.

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others

A person employed by an individual or in an office to assist with correspondence, make appointments, and carry out administrative tasks

Kept hidden from knowledge or view; concealed

A person employed to handle correspondence, keep files, and do clerical work for another person or an organization.

Not expressed; inward

An officer who keeps records, takes minutes of the meetings, and answers correspondence, as for a company.

Given to keeping one's thoughts and activities unknown to others; secretive

An official who presides over an administrative department of state.

Not revealing a secret or not given to revealing secrets

A desk with a small bookcase on top.

Operating in a hidden or confidential manner

(obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.

Containing information, the unauthorized disclosure of which poses a grave threat to national security.

(obsolete) Someone employed as a scribe for personal correspondence.

Not much visited; secluded

A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.

Known or shared only by the initiated

The head of a department of government.

Beyond ordinary understanding; mysterious

A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.

Something that is kept out of the knowledge or sight of others or is known only to oneself or a few

(US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.

Something that remains beyond understanding or explanation; a mystery

A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.

A method or formula for doing or making something well, especially when not widely known

(transitive) To serve as a secretary of.

Secret A variable prayer said after the Offertory and before the Preface in the Mass.

One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

(countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.

A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.

The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.

An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.

Something not understood or known.

A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.

(uncountable) Private seclusion.

The secretary bird.

The genital organs.

A person who is head of an administrative department of government

(historical) A form of steel skullcap.

An assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization

Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.

A person to whom a secret is entrusted

Being or kept hidden.

A desk used for writing

(obsolete) Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.

(obsolete) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.

(obsolete) Separate; distinct.

(transitive) To make or keep secret.

(transitive) To hide secretly.

Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.

Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.

Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.

Separate; distinct.

Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.

A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.

The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.

To keep secret.

Something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on);

Information known only to a special group;

Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained;

Not open or public; kept private or not revealed;

Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;

Not openly made known;

Communicated covertly;

Not expressed;

Designed to elude detection;

Hidden from general view or use;

(of information) given in confidence or in secret;

Indulging only covertly;

Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding;

The next to highest level of official classification for documents