0 a cupboard or a small room with a door, used for storing things, especially clothes: --
1 to put yourself in a place, especially a closed space, and stay there: --
2 used to refer to a belief, activity, or feeling that is kept secret from the public, usually because you are frightened of the results of it becoming known: --
3 a small room or space in a wall where you can store things such as clothes, sheets, etc., often having a door so that it can be closed: --
a closet liberal
5 to arrange to meet privately with someone where you will not be interrupted: --
The president and his advisers closeted themselves with the congressional leadership.
The local doctor found us a dressing room used by residents, little more than a closet, and left us there with our kinsman.
An architectural school offers a very different form of education to the closeted and uneven, if occasionally brilliant, alternative of the old apprentice based system.
I have come out of the age closet.
He is also a closet genre novel writer.
Her perspective, though, is made relative by the other speakers and by the form in which it is presented: the verse or closet drama.
His redefinition of the closet has an interpretation which views the closet as the place where one's false self resides.
Through the metaphor of redefinition, the closet can describe someone whose identity is not ever-present, but changing.
Accommodations for women included standard water closets available for their use at a charge of one penny.
