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Meanings of closet in English

Russian
гардероб
Portuguese
guardarroupas
Catalan
armari
Spanish
armario
Wikidata

A tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes.

        гардероб
        Portuguese
        sanita
        Catalan
        w.c.
        Spanish
        váter

        A toilet in Britain.

              sanita
              Portuguese
              estante
              Catalan
              armari
              Spanish
              armario

              A small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space.

                    estante
                    Usage of closet in English
                    1
                    I've got a good family; don't have any skeletons in my closet.
                    Complete Books of Blood
                    2
                    But the under table-cloth was kept in a drawer in the closet.
                    The Peterkin papers
                    3
                    Sullivan says: Barack Obama had to come out of a different closet.
                    Ebony
                    4
                    The panel in the ceiling of the closet was twenty inches square.
                    The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
                    5
                    One project Ihad long been putting off was a closet clear out.
                    The Irish Times
                    6
                    Let's change the sheets and clear out a space in the closet.
                    Table for five
                    7
                    The cabinet was placed in the large closet attached to the sitting-room.
                    Leah Mordecai: A Novel
                    8
                    The bed linen is in the closet off the front room upstairs.
                    The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, Over the Top with the Winn...
                    9
                    That said, the titans of free email seem to be closet realists.
                    Wired
                    10
                    More patients' rooms and a locked utility closet were to my right.
                    Too close to home
                    11
                    Sweetwater in the darkness of his closet laughed in his gleeful appreciation.
                    Initials Only
                    12
                    At the first note something stirred on top of the china closet.
                    A Kindergarten Story Book
                    13
                    Adams led the way across the bedroom to a large walk-in closet.
                    Transfer of power
                    14
                    Part of it is still hanging from the peg in the closet.
                    John Thorndyke's Cases / related by Christopher Jervis and edite...
                    15
                    Remember the night you spent in my closet? Of course he remembered.
                    A farewell to legs: an aaron tucker mystery
                    16
                    The search must go on, notwithstanding the clutter in the kitchen closet.
                    The Hills of Hingham
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                    Closet through the time
                    Closet across language varieties
                    Canada
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Common
                    United Kingdom
                    Less common
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