closet

IPA: kɫˈɑzʌt

A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
(obsolete) Any private space, (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, fanciful) 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.
(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, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
(Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
(slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case. [(slang) A gay person who pretends to be heterosexual.]
(obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet. [(euphemistic, obsolete) A room used to ease one's bowels: a lavatory.]

(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.

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

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