closet.
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
Meaning & usage
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)
Any private or inner room, (particularly): A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
Any private or inner room, (particularly): A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
Any private or inner room, (particularly): A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.
Any private or inner room, (particularly): The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
A private cabinet, (particularly): One used to store valuables.
A private cabinet, (particularly): One used to store curiosities.
A private cabinet, (particularly): A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.
A private cabinet, (particularly): Clipping of closet case.
A private cabinet, (particularly): One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
A private cabinet, (particularly): Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet.
An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
A sewer.
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity. The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?
Where this word comes from
From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
Private.
Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
He's a closet case.
Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
To shut away for private discussion.
The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
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