Definitions for closet

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closet clos·et

Spelling: [kloz-it]

IPA: /ˈklɒz ɪt/

Closet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in closet (celost).

Definitions for closet

noun

1. a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
2. a small private room, especially one used for prayer, meditation, etc.
3. a state or condition of secrecy or carefully guarded privacy:
4. water closet.

adjective

1. private; secluded.
2. suited for use or enjoyment in privacy:
3. engaged in private study or speculation; speculative; unpractical:
4. being or functioning as such in private; secret:

verb (used with object)

1. to shut up in a private room for a conference, interview, etc. (usually used in the passive voice):

Origin of closet

1300-50; Middle English Anglo-French, Middle French, equivalent to clos close (noun) + -et -et

Examples for closet

But once Kanye came along, Kim had to literally clean out her closet.

Harriet had not "gone into her closet and shut the door" for nothing.

One night in 2004, my college boyfriend called me from inside a closet in a north Toronto housing project.

She offered to go to my closet: I stept in before her: touch it, if you dare.

Nothing else ought ever to be heard of in the school, or in the closet.

It was over his image that she had lingered that morning in her closet.

It should be possible to make an interesting film in a closet with the door shut.

When I was in the closet in my twenties, I considered suicide almost every day.

Tears, of course, except in the privacy of one's closet, were not ethical on the Street.

Hanley was forced to come out of the closet and resign all at once.