Closet

Quick meaning: Closet is a noun meaning A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

Meaning

A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

More Meanings

1. (now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
2. A private cabinet, (particularly):
3. (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
4. (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
5. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
6. (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
7. (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.

Example Sentences

Closet, chapelle.

He's a closet case.

A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.

A Closset is the halfe of the Barre, and tenne of them maie be borne in one fielde.

Word Forms

• closets
• closeting
• closeted

Synonyms for closet

Depending on context, synonyms include armchair, cabinet, bathroom, secret, press, confidential.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cupboard, wardrobe, press, covert, loo, confidential.

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