closet
Meanings
Plural: closets
Noun
- a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
- a toilet in Britain
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a small private room for study or prayer
- 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.
- 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.
- Any private or inner room, (particularly)
- 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.
- A private cabinet, (particularly):
- Clipping of closet case.
- Any small room or side room.
- One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- Any small room or side room.
- 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?
Verb
- confine to a small space, as for intensive work
- 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.
Adj
- Private.
- Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
- Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 8
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Words With Friends Score: 10
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