Private

Military rank held by junior enlisted personnel in some countries' armed forces

Also known as Pte · Pvt. · PVT · PV1 · PV2 · E-1

Instance of: enlisted rank

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

A private is a soldier, usually with the lowest rank in many armies. Soldiers with the rank of private may be conscripts or they may be professional (career) soldiers.

Overview

All data

38 statements · 8% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

NATO code for grade: OR-2
Short name: szer.
Pte
Pvt.
PVT
PV1
PV2
Female form of label: soldada rasa
рядова
eilinė
рядовая
Different from: Szeregowy
soldier
Next higher rank: Gefreiter
Lance Corporal
Private First Class
Corporal
Said to be the same as: seaman
soldat
Gemeiner
Male form of label: eilinis
Depicted by: Il soldato che non vuole la guerra
Follows: civilian

On other databases

11 identifiers linking Private across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

externally sourced

Source last edited September 30, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q158668

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). Private (Q158668). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/private-Q158668