## Meanings
1. known to only a few people and kept hidden from others
2. a piece of information that is kept hidden from others
3. the key or method that explains how something is done well

## Examples
- They met in a secret location outside town.
- Can you keep a secret?
- The secret to a good cake is fresh ingredients.

## Synonyms
- dern

## Antonyms
- overt

## Derived Forms
- nonsecret
- pseudosecret
- secret-sacred
- secrete
- secretist
- secretive
- secretly
- secretmonger
- secretness
- semisecretsupersecret
- subsecret
- supersecret

## Related Forms
- secrete
- secretion

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: secrette
- Root: secret
- Root: sēcrētus
- Root: *krey-

## Etymology
From Middle English secrette, from Old French secret, from Latin sēcrētus (“separated, hidden”), from ptp of sēcernō (“separate, to set aside, sunder out”), from cernō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Displaced Old English dēagol (“secret”).

## AI Etymology
Secret is from Middle English secrette, from Old French secret, from Latin sēcrētus (“separated, hidden”), from ptp of sēcernō (“separate, to set aside, sunder out”), from cernō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-. Displaced Old English dēagol (“secret”). Important forms in the word's history include Middle English secrette, Old French secret, Latin sēcrētus, Proto-Indo-European *krey-. In current use it includes senses such as known to only a few people and kept hidden from others and a piece of information that is kept hidden from others.

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