1. (n.)secretary a person in charge of records, correspondence, and related affairs, as for a company.
2. secretary a person employed to do routine work in a business office, as typing, filing, and answering phones.
3. secretary a person employed to attend to the individual or confidential correspondence, scheduling, etc. of an executive, celebrity, or the like.
4. secretary (often cap.) an officer of state charged with the superintendence and management of a particulardepartment of government, as a member of the president's cabinet in the U.S.: Secretary of the Treasury.
6. secretary a piece of furniture for use as a writing desk, esp. one with drawers below and a cabinet or bookshelves above an often enclosed writing surface.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME secretarie one trusted with private or secret matters, confidant < ML sēcrētārius= L sēcrēt(um)secret (n.) +-ārius -ary)
Definition of 'secretary'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)secretary a person who is head of an administrative department of government
2. (noun)secretary, secretarial assistant an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
3. (noun)repository, secretary a person to whom a secret is entrusted
4. (noun)secretary, writing table, escritoire, secretaire a desk used for writing
1. (noun)secretary one who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets
2. (noun)secretary 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
Definitions of secretary 
Afrikaans: sekretaresse
Arabic: سِكْرِتير أو سِكْرِتيرَه،
Bulgarian: секретар/ка
Brazilian: secretária
Czech: sekretář, -ka
German: der/die Sekretär(in)
Danish: sekretær
Greek: γραμματέας (το επάγγελμα)
Spanish: secretario
Estonian: sekretär
Farsi: منشي
Finnish: sihteeri
French: secrétaire
Hebrew: מַזכִּיר, מַזכִּירָה
Hindi: मुंशी
Croatian: tajnik
Hungarian: titkár
Indonesian: sekretaris
Icelandic: ritari
Italian: segretario
Japanese: 秘書
Korean: 비서
Lithuanian: sekretorius
Latvian: sekretārs; sekretāre
Malay: setiausaha
Dutch: secretaresse
Norwegian: sekretær; daglig leder
Polish: sekretarka, sekretarz
Persian: منشي
Pashto: سكرټر، منشى، ميرزا، وزير،
Portuguese: secretária
Romanian: secretar
Russian: секретарь
Slovak: sekretár, -ka
Slovenian: tajnik, tajnica
Serbian: sekretarica
Swedish: sekreterare
Thai: เลขานุการ
Turkish: sekreter
Taiwanese: 秘書
Ukrainian: секретар
Urdu: مساعد، سیکریٹری
Vietnamese: thư kí
Chinese: 秘书
