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closet
[ kloz-it ]
noun
- a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
- a small private room, especially one used for prayer, meditation, etc.
- a state or condition of secrecy or carefully guarded privacy:
Some conservatives remain in the closet except on election day. Gay liberation has encouraged many gay people to come out of the closet.
adjective
- private; secluded.
- suited for use or enjoyment in privacy:
closet reflections; closet prayer.
- engaged in private study or speculation; speculative; unpractical:
a closet thinker with no practical experience.
- being or functioning as such in private; secret:
a closet anarchist.
verb (used with object)
- to shut up in a private room for a conference, interview, etc. (usually used in the passive voice):
The secretary of state was closeted with the senator for three hours in a tense session.
closet
/ ˈ°ì±ôÉ’³úɪ³Ù /
noun
- a small cupboard or recess
- a small private room
- short for water closet
- modifier private or secret
- modifier suited or appropriate for use in private
closet meditations
- modifier based on or devoted to theory; speculative
a closet strategist
verb
- tr to shut up or confine in a small private room, esp for conference or meditation
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of closet1
Idioms and Phrases
see come out of the closet ; skeleton in the closet .Example Sentences
"I would have been a happier person being out of the closet and being free," he told El Pais in 2024.
And it’s why, after spending years in period projects that kept him talking and thinking mostly of closets and traumas, Bomer feels so at home within this raucously funny ensemble.
Now he dresses as if he looks in his closet, asks what would most repulse women, and throws that on to speak in public.
One of the couple’s dogs was found dead in a closet not too far from Arakawa’s body, according to authorities.
When I got out of my taxi and arrived at my hotel, I told the friend I was meeting to pull her original Vuitton x Murakami bag out of her closet immediately.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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