closet
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
Other meanings
A private cabinet, particularly
A secret or hiding place, particularly the hiding place in English idioms such as and .
A kind of
- storage space
Kinds of closet
- broom closet
- safe
- supply closet
Related words
- closetful
- Closetgate
- closetlike
- closetry
- closety
- cybercloset
- watercloset
- closet queen
- monster closet
- the closet is made of glass
- closet hook
- broom closet
Word history
From Latin "clausum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “closet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.