closetnoun/ˈklɒzɪt/

• 1

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

  • A Closet full of shelves... it... should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.
  • She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
• 2

  obsoleteAny private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.

  • A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.
• 3

  archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly)

  • VVhen come to the place vvhere vve all vvere to dine, / (A chair-lumber'd Cloſet, juſt tvvelve feet by nine) / My friend bid me vvelcome, but ſtruck me quite dumb / VVith tidings that Johnson and Burke coud not come: […]
• 4

  archaicobsoleteAny private or inner room, (particularly):

  • Closet for a lady to make her redy in, chamberette.
• 5

  archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly):

  • When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.
• 6

  archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly):

  • [A]broad and at home, at their Tables or in their Closets […]
• 7

  archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly):

• 8

  obsoleteA pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.

  • Chaplayneȝ to þe chapeles chosen þe gate... / Þe lorde loutes þerto, & þe lady als, / In-to a comly closet coyntly ho entreȝ.
  • Closet, chapelle.

closetadj/ˈklɒzɪt/

• 1

  obsoletePrivate.

• 2

  Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).

  • He's a closet case.
  • I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker.
• 3

  Denoting anything kept a secret or private.

closetverb/ˈklɒzɪt/

• 1

  To shut away for private discussion.

  • The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
• 2

  To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

  • He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
  • He had been closeted with De Quadra.
• 3

  To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

  • See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large;
  • […] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• closet case
• closet of ease