CLOSET

closet

(noun) a small private room for study or prayer

cupboard, closet

(noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

wardrobe, closet, press

(noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

closet

(verb) confine to a small space, as for intensive work

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

closet (plural closets)

(obsolete) Any private area, (particularly) bowers in the open air.

(now, rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly)

(obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.

(archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.

(figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually) contemplation and theorizing.

(archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.

(obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.

A private cabinet, (particularly)

(obsolete) One used to store valuables.

(archaic) One used to store curiosities.

(now, chiefly, US) One used to store food or other household supplies: a cupboard.

(figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.

(now, chiefly, Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side-room, (particularly)

(US) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

(obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet.

(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.

(Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.

Synonyms

• (place of fanciful theorization): armchair

• (furniture or shelving used for storage): See cabinet

• (room with a toilet): See bathroom

Hyponyms

• (A small closet with built-in lock): locker

• (A small room used for storage): walk-in closet, storage room

• (A storage area set into a wall, used for storing food or dishware): cupboard, pantry, larder, cabinet

• (A piece of furniture, used for storing clothes): wardrobe, armoire, press (Irish & Scots)

• (A piece of furniture, used for storing food or dishware): cupboard, sideboard, cabinet, press (Irish & Scots), wardrobe (UK)

Adjective

closet (not comparable)

(obsolete) Private.

Secret, (especially) with reference to gay people who are in the closet; closeted.

Verb

closet (third-person singular simple present closets, present participle closeting, simple past and past participle closeted)

(transitive) To shut away for private discussion.

(transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

(transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Anagrams

• colets, telcos

Source: Wiktionary

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Clos"et, n. Etym: [OF. closet little inclosure, dim. of clos. See Close an inclosure.]

1. A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.

2. A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc. Dryden. Closet sin, sin commited in privacy. Bp. Hall.

Clos"et, v. t. [imp. & p. pr. & vb. n. Closeting.]

1. To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.] Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge. Cowper.

2. To make into a closet for a secret interview. He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members. Bancroft. He had been closeted with De Quadra. Froude.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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