closet
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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.
(archaic)(now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
- 4.
(obsolete)A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
Chaplayneȝ to þe chapeles chosen þe gate... / Þe lorde loutes þerto, & þe lady als, / In-to a comly closet coyntly ho entreȝ.
- 5.
A private cabinet, (particularly):
- 6.
(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- 7.
(Scotland, obsolete)A sewer.
- 8.
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- 9.
(archaic)A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?
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adjective- 1.
(not comparable, obsolete)Private.
- 2.
(not comparable)Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
He's a closet case.
- 3.
(not comparable)Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To shut away for private discussion.
The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
- 2.
(transitive)To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
- 3.
(transitive)To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
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From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos + --et, from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures. ine-pro