closet

Definition

Examples

Each bedroom in the apartment has a large closet.

Synonyms

• wardrobea tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
• cupboarda small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
• cabineta piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display

Collocations

• Easy hang warm jackets in bedroom clothes closet
  to hang warm jackets in bedroom clothes closet, meaning to be suspended or hanging
• Medium organize office stationery supplies in utility closet
  to organize office stationery supplies in utility closet, meaning to create (as an entity)
• Hard closet critic secretly harbors deep skepticism
  to closet critic secretly harbors deep skepticism, meaning to confine to a small space, as for intensive work
• Very Hard exhume an embarrassing skeleton in the closet
  to exhume an embarrassing skeleton in the closet, meaning to dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies