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What does closet mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) Any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.
  2. (now rare) Any private or inner room, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
    2. (archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
    3. (figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.
    4. (archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
  3. (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
  4. A private cabinet, particularly:
    1. (obsolete) One used to store valuables.
    2. (archaic) One used to store curiosities.
    3. (now chiefly US) One used to store food or other household supplies: a cupboard.
    4. (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, particularly the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
  5. (now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side-room, particularly:
    1. (US) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
    2. (obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease or later (Britain) water closet: a room containing a toilet.
  6. (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
  7. (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Private.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
  2. (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  3. (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
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