closet

noun

• 1chiefly North American a cupboard or wardrobe, especially one tall enough to walk into: rich women with closets full of clothes they’ll never wear
• a small room, especially one used for storing things or for private study.

• 2 archaic a toilet.

• 3 (the closet) used to refer to a state of secrecy or concealment, especially about one’s homosexuality:lesbians who had come out of the closet

adjective

• secret; covert:a closet feminist

verb (closets, closeting, closeted)

• shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study:he was closeted with the king he returned home and closeted himself in his room