Meaning

17 senses
  1. A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

    a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

  2. A private cabinet, (particularly):

    (figuratively)A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.

    The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.

    He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.

  3. (Philippines, US)One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

  4. An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.

  5. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.

  6. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.

    The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.

  7. (obsolete)Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.

  8. (archaic)Any private or inner room, (particularly)

    a small private room for study or prayer

  9. Any private or inner room, (particularly):

    (archaic, obsolete)A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.

  10. (archaic)A private room used for prayer or other devotions.

  11. (archaic, figuratively)A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.

  12. (archaic)The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.

    Kammer, Abstellkammer, Ankleide

    чула́нčulán, камо́ркаkamórka

    коміркаkomirka

Examples

603 sentences
  1. There's someone hiding in the closet.

    У шафі хтось ховається.

    ruКто-то прячется в шкафу.

    deJemand hält sich im Schrank versteckt.

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  2. What else is in the closet?

    Що ще у шафі?

    ruЧто ещё в шкафу?

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  3. Does your room have a closet?

    У твоїй кімнаті є шафа?

    ruУ тебя в комнате есть шкаф?

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  4. Tom found Mary hiding in the closet.

    Том знайшов Мері. Вона ховалася у комірці.

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  5. Tom couldn't get the closet door open.

    Том не зміг відчинити двері шафи.

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Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
small private chamber:
Русский
By meaning 1
small private chamber:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
figurative sense:
small private chamber:

Origin

From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (dim

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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Forms

plural: closets
Singularcloset
Pluralclosets

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
place of fanciful theorization:armchairA2
furniture or shelving used for storage:cabinetB2
Close in meaning
  • a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space:cupboard
  • a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes:wardrobepress
  • a toilet in Britain:water closetW.C.loo

Word family

28 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in the closet
  • closet is full
  • in my closet
  • in his closet
  • out his closet
  • the closet door
  • my closet is
  • the hall closet
  • into the closet
  • opened the closet
  • of the closet
  • hall closet

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
closet — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto