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top secret

top secret adjective: information classified at one of the highest levels of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed.

Adjective

top secret (not comparable)

  1. Information classified at one of the highest levels of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed.
    • NSA's report on the Liberty incident was originally classified top secret.
    • 'Well, here's the dope, Bill.' He handed over the black folder with the red star which stood for Top Secret.1953, Ian Fleming, “Number 007”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 23
  2. A level of security clearance needed to access such information.
  3. (figuratively) Pertaining to any especially sensitive closed-room activities.
    • Steve Jobs set up a top secret team to design the Macintosh.

Noun

top secret (plural top secrets)

  1. A secret that is classed as "top secret"; top-secret information.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see top, secret.

top secret meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese

top secret in Hindi

information classified at the highest level
अतिगुप्त atigupt

top secret in Tamil

மிகவும் இரகசியமான, மேலான கமுக்கம்

top secret in Thai

information classified at the highest level
ลับสุดยอด

top secret in Vietnamese

information classified at the highest level
tối mật

Forms of top secret

Adjective
alternative formtop-secret
Noun
pluraltop secrets

Questions about top secret

What does top secret mean?
Top secret means information classified at one of the highest levels of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed.
What is top secret in Hindi?
Top secret in Hindi is अतिगुप्त (atigupt). See Top secret meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is top secret?
Top secret can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near top secret in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: top secret (page history and authors); top secret (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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