- clos|et
- clos|et «KLOZ iht», noun, verb, adjective.–n.1. a small room used for storing clothes or household supplies, such as canned food, china, or linen: »
He hung his raincoat in the hall closet. She took fresh sheets out of the linen closet.
2. a cupboard, especially one for holding china or linen. SYNONYM(S): cabinet.3. a small, private room for prayer, study, or interviews.4. the apartment of a king, ruler, or other governmental official, for private consultations or religious meetings.5. a water closet; toilet.–v.t.1. to shut up in a private room for a secret talk: »For nearly an hour he had been closeted in a room across the hall with…one of his close political associates (New York Times).
2. to admit to one's private room for secret discussion: »The king asserted that some of the Churchmen whom he had closeted had offered to make large concessions (Macaulay).
3. to withdraw or shut away in a private space: »"He is closeted with his wife and a few others, well-protected by his police, and still in control of the army." (New York Review of Books).
–adj.1. a) having to do with a closet; private; secluded; secret: »closet politics. Emily Dickinson was a closet poet.
b) hidden; covert; secret: »a closet addict…the revisionist transmogrification of Dwight D. Eisenhower into a closet dove who would have abandoned the nation's commitments in Southeast Asia and elsewhere (National Review).
2. designed or suited for private reading or study: »Jeremy Taylor's treatises are in use…as well for church service as for closet preparation (Earl of Shaftesbury).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
