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Definition of Closet
1. Verb. Confine to a small space, as for intensive work.
2. Noun. A small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space.
Specialized synonyms: Airing Cupboard, Broom Closet, Safe, Supply Closet
Generic synonyms: Storage Space
3. Noun. A toilet in Britain.
Generic synonyms: Bathroom, Can, John, Lav, Lavatory, Privy, Toilet
4. Noun. A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes.
Specialized synonyms: Armoire, Clothes Closet, Clothespress, Coat Closet
Generic synonyms: Article Of Furniture, Furniture, Piece Of Furniture
5. Noun. A small private room for study or prayer.
Definition of Closet
1. n. A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
2. v. t. To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.
Definition of Closet
1. Noun. (Chiefly American English) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored. ¹
2. Noun. A small private chamber. ¹
3. Noun. A toilet; a water closet. ¹
4. Noun. (figuratively) The imagined closet in idioms such as (term in the closet) or (term skeleton in the closet), a place to keep things hidden. ¹
5. Adjective. Secret. ¹
6. Verb. To have a private meeting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Closet
1. to enclose in a private room [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closet
Literary usage of Closet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The whole closet is trapped by an ordinary bond on the soil-pipe, which is not
shown in the figure. Thevolume of water in the basin ia much greater than in ..."
2. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"Water-closet accommodations. In every tenement house hereafter erected there
shall be a separate water-closet in a separate compartment within each ..."
3. Report by Industrial Commission of Ohio, Dept. of Investigation and Statistics (1915)
"Number of orders containing each specified _ Detailed Requirements of Orders
Issued, requirement. b Provide adjacent dressing-room and water-closet. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"THE BLUE closet THE ... Once every year on Christinas Eve, To sing in the closet
Blue one song; And we should be so long, so long, If we dared, ..."
5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Though he held the see for eight months only, and as clerk of the closet was much
absent from ... 1633 ; on 20 Oct. Charles made him clerk of the closet. ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"The companion bay has shelves and a low closet. ... In tea-houses of two stories
ch often ascend from the vicinity of the kitchen, have a closet, ..."
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