closet

Meaning

Noun

1. A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
2. (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
3. (obsolete) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
4. Any private or inner room, (particularly):
5. Any private or inner room, (particularly):
6. Any private or inner room, (particularly):
7. (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
8. (obsolete) A private cabinet, (particularly):
9. A private cabinet, (particularly):
10. A private cabinet, (particularly):
11. (slang) A private cabinet, (particularly):
12. Any small room or side room.
13. (obsolete) Any small room or side room.
14. An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
15. (obsolete) A sewer.
16. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
17. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
18. A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?

Adj

1. (obsolete) Private.
2. Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
3. Denoting anything kept a secret or private.

Verb

1. To shut away for private discussion.
2. To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
3. To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Synonyms

cupboard

cabinet

🗄️

wardrobe

locker

press

sideboard

chest

chamber

water closet

cubicle

shelf

loo

small room

bookcase

dresser

pantry

compartment

storage room

W.C.

kitchen

lav

lavatory

lock

🔒

niche

potty

private

privy

recess

restroom

🚻

room

safe

shed

shipowner

shut

small house

storeroom

theoretical

ventricle

washroom

cubby-hole

john

paper kite

press wardrobe

clothespress

tiny room

almirah

oven chamber

armoire

back room

bathroom

boxroom

burglar

burglary

cabin

can

cell

close

clothes closet

confidential

cottage

drawer

hanger

hook

🪝

house

🏠

introvert

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈklɒzɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (“forming diminutives”), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.