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Meaning
Noun
●
A
small room
within a
house
used to
store
clothing
, food, or other
household
supplies.
●
Any
private
space
, (particularly)
bowers
in the open
air.
●
Any
private
or
inner
room
, (particularly):
A
private
room
used by women to
groom
and
dress
themselves.
A
private
room
used for
prayer
or other devotions.
A place of (usually,
fanciful
)
contemplation
and theorizing.
The
private
residence
or
private
council
chamber
of a monarch.
●
A
pew
or side-chapel
reserved
for a
monarch
or other
feudal
lord.
●
In Furniture:
A
private
cabinet
, (particularly):
One used to
store
valuables.
One used to
store
curiosities.
A
secret
or
hiding place
, (particularly) the
hiding place
in English
idioms
such as
in the closet
and
skeleton
in the closet
.
Clipping of
closet
case.
●
In American English, Irish English, Philippine English & Scottish English:
Any
small room
or side-room, (particularly):
One
intended
for
storing
clothes
or bedclothes.
●
In British English, Irish English & Scottish English:
Any
small room
or side-room, (particularly):
Clipping of
closet of ease
, (later, UK)
clipping
of
water closet
: a
room
containing
a toilet.
●
In Heraldic charges:
An
ordinary
similar
to a
bar
but
half
as broad.
●
In Scottish English:
A sewer.
●
A state or
condition
of
secrecy
,
privacy
, or obscurity.
Adj
●
Private.
●
Closeted,
secret
(especially with
reference
to
gay
people who are in the closet).
●
Denoting anything
kept
a
secret
or private.
Verb
●
To
shut away
for
private
discussion.
●
To
put
into a
private
place for a
secret
interview
or interrogation.
●
To
shut up
in, or
as in
, a
closet
for
concealment
or confinement.
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Wiktionary
Synonyms
Armchair
Bathroom
Cabinet
Press
Cupboard
Wardrobe
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Rhymes
Posit
Closet
Deposit
Composite
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