closet
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
Noun 4 meanings
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
A private cabinet, (particularly):
“The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.”
An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
Adjective 2 meanings
Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
“He's a closet case.”
Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
Verb 3 meanings
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.”
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.
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.
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CLOSET at a glance
CLOSET has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (C 3 + L 1 + O 1 + S 1 + E 1 + T 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,673 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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