Synonyms of the word closet


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closet

  • n. (obsolete) Any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.
  • n. (now rare) Any private or inner room, particularly.
  • n. (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
  • n. A private cabinet, particularly.
  • n. (now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side-room, particularly.
  • n. (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
  • n. (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
  • adj. (obsolete) Private.
  • adj. Secret, particularly with reference to secret homosexuals in the closet.
  • v. (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
  • v. (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  • v. (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

bathroom

  • n. A room containing a bathtub and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
  • n. (chiefly US, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a…

can

  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
  • n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
  • n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  • n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
  • n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
  • n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
  • n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
  • n. (slang) Jail or prison.
  • n. (slang) Headphones.
  • n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
  • n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
  • v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
  • v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
  • v. To shut up.
  • v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

confine

  • v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
  • v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
  • n. Limit.

cupboard

  • n. (obsolete) A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sid…
  • n. (obsolete) Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate.
  • n. A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or…
  • n. (obsolete) Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
  • v. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

furniture

  • n. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics,…
  • n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
  • n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
  • n. (firearms) the stock and forearm of a weapon.

john

  • n. (slang) A prostitute's client.
  • n. (slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (…
  • n. (slang) A generic term for Western men while traveling in East Asia.
  • n. A male mule.

lav

  • n. (Britain, slang) Clipping of lavatory.

lavatory

  • n. A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly.
  • n. Handwashing, particularly.
  • n. (obsolete) A liquid used in washing; a lotion; a wash; a rinse.
  • n. (dated) A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands.
  • n. (euphemistic) A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
  • n. (Britain, New England) A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
  • n. (dated) A place to wash clothes: a laundry.
  • n. (obsolete) A place where gold is panned.
  • n. (obsolete) A paved room in a mortuary where corpses are kept under a shower of disinfecting fluid.
  • adj. (dated) Washing, or cleansing by washing.

loo

  • interj. A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
  • v. (now dialect, used with at, upon or infinitive) To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other…
  • n. Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.
  • n. The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
  • n. An act that prompts such a penalty.
  • n. A game of lanterloo.
  • n. (figuratively) Any group of people.
  • v. To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
  • v. (figuratively, now dialect) To pay any penalty to any community.
  • n. (fashion, obsolete) A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the…
  • n. (India) A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

press

  • n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
  • n. (countable) A printing machine.
  • n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
  • n. (countable) A publisher.
  • n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
  • n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
  • n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
  • n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
  • n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
  • n. (obsolete) A crowd.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
  • v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
  • v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
  • v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
  • v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
  • v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
  • v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
  • v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
  • v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
  • v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
  • v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
  • v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

privy

  • adj. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
  • adj. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • adj. With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
  • n. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
  • n. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
  • n. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
  • n. (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

room

  • adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
  • adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  • adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
  • n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  • n. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  • n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
  • n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  • n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
  • n. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  • n. (countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
  • n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  • n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
  • n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
  • n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  • n. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room.
  • n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  • v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  • v. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

toilet

  • n. (archaic) Personal grooming, in other words washing, dressing, etc.
  • n. (now rare) One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
  • n. (archaic) A dressing room.
  • n. A room or enclosed area containing a toilet: a bathroom or water closet.
  • n. (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.
  • n. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
  • n. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly those with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat…
  • n. (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.
  • n. (obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room.
  • n. (obsolete) A dressing table.
  • v. (dated) To dress and groom oneself.
  • v. To use the toilet.
  • v. To assist another (a child etc.) in using the toilet.

wardrobe

  • n. (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside…
  • n. (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for…
  • n. (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
  • n. (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
  • n. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
  • n. (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes;…
  • n. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furnit…
  • n. (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
  • n. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
  • n. (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
  • n. (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
  • n. (obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating.
  • n. (hunting, obsolete) Badger shit: the feces produced by badgers, particularly used in tracking game.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.

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