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How to pronounce “closet”

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Pronunciation guide for closet

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of closet with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
The Potential US TikTok Ban — and What’s at Stakewhistleblower that there was a closet in
Definition summary
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

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How to pronounce closet

The Potential US TikTok Ban — and What’s at Stake

whistleblower that there was a closet in

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “closet”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
  • (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
  • (now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
  • (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
  • A private cabinet, (particularly):
  • (now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side room.
  • (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
  • (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
  • A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
  • (archaic) A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?
  • [Adjective]
  • (obsolete) Private.
  • Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
  • Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
  • [Verb]
  • (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
  • (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  • (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

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