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US
/ˈkɫɑzət/
]
[ UK /klˈɒzɪt/ ]
[ UK /klˈɒzɪt/ ]
VERB
- confine to a small space, as for intensive work
NOUN
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a small private room for study or prayer
- a toilet in Britain
- a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
How To Use closet In A Sentence
- In the closet scene, Hamlet mistook her father for the king, and he fatally stabbed him.
- Their feet clattered over the faux marble floor past the reference desk towards the closet.
- Homeowners with more space and money could go one step farther with a walk-in closet. Times, Sunday Times
- a deep closet
- come out of the closet!
- He pulled over, struggling with the words to the classic song by that skinny girl who died in a closet.
- Ill eneugh to keep the doors open as it is, let be facing Whitsunday and Martinmas — an auld leather pock there is, Maister Francie, in ane of worthy Maister Bindloose the sheriff-clerk’s pigeon-holes, in his dowcot of a closet in the burgh; and therein is baith charter and sasine, and special service to boot; and that will be chapter and verse, speer when ye list.” Saint Ronan's Well
- I jump off my bed and walk to my closet scanning the clothes, but not really looking, for my mind is recalling the events that happened earlier.
- Obviously the closet was full. Times, Sunday Times
- He should be very afraid, closeted queenie that he is. Think Progress » Virginia attorney general instructs state colleges to stop protecting gay students from discrimination.
