closetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈklɒzɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈklɑzɪt/
• 韻: -ɒzɪt

名詞

closet (複数形 closets)

1. A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
   • 1799 May 17, Jane Austen, letter:

     A Closet full of shelves... it... should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.

2. (obsolete) Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
   • c. 1370, Robert Cicyle, l. 57 f.:

     A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.

3. (now rare) Any private or inner room, (particularly):
   • 1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison, a Poetical Epistle to Lord Clare, Dublin: […] W. Whitestone, […], published 1776, →OCLC, page 9:

     VVhen come to the place vvhere vve all vvere to dine, / (A chair-lumber'd Cloſet, juſt tvvelve feet by nine) / My friend bid me vvelcome, but ſtruck me quite dumb / VVith tidings that Johnson and Burke coud not come: […]

   1. (obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.
      • 1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement, page 206:

        Closet for a lady to make her redy in, chamberette.

   2. (archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:6:

        When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.

   3. (figuratively, archaic) A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.
      • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

        [A]broad and at home, at their Tables or in their Closets […]

   4. (archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
4. (obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
   • c. 1390, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, §I, 934 ff.:

     Chaplayneȝ to þe chapeles chosen þe gate... / Þe lorde loutes þerto, & þe lady als, / In-to a comly closet coyntly ho entreȝ.

   • 1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement, page 206:

     Closet, chapelle.

5. A private cabinet, (particularly):
   1. (obsolete) One used to store valuables.
      • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 130:

        But heere's a Parchment... I found it in his Closset, 'tis his Will.

   2. (archaic) One used to store curiosities.
      • 1659, Elias Ashmole, Diary, page 326:

        Mr. Tradescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died.

      • 1681, Marquis of Halifax, Seasonable Addresses to the Houses of Parliament in Concise Succession, page 10:

        The late House of Commons have... seiz'd Closets and Writings without Information.

   3. (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
      • 1530, chapter II, in Myroure of Oure Ladye, page 233:

        Went the sonne of god oute of the pryuy closet of the maydens wombe.

      The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.

      He's so far in the closet, he can see Narnia.

   4. (スラング, まれに) Clipping of closet case.
6. (now chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Any small room or side-room, (particularly):
   1. (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
   2. (obsolete) Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet.
7. (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.

   Coordinate term: barrulet

   • 1572, J. Bossewell, Wks. Armorie, page 12:

     A Closset is the halfe of the Barre, and tenne of them maie be borne in one fielde.

8. (Scotland, obsolete) A sewer.
9. A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.

同意語

• (place of fanciful theorization): armchair
• (furniture または shelving used for storage): See cabinet
• (room with a toilet): See Thesaurus:bathroom

下位語

• (small closet with built-in lock): locker
• (small room used for storage): walk-in closet, storage room
• (storage area set into a wall, used for storing food または dishware): cupboard, pantry, larder, cabinet
• (piece of furniture, used for storing clothes): wardrobe, armoire, press (Irish & Scots)
• (piece of furniture, used for storing food または dishware): cupboard, sideboard, cabinet, press (Irish & Scots), wardrobe (英国用法)

派生語

派生した語

• → Czech: klozet
• → Spanish: clóset
• → Welsh: closet

形容詞

closet (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Private.
2. Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).

   He's a closet case.

   • 1940, Walton Hall Smith, Liquor, the servant of man:

     I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker.

3. Denoting anything kept a secret or private.

参考

• out

動詞

closet (三人称単数 現在形 closets, 現在分詞 closeting, 過去形および過去分詞形 closeted)

1. (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.

   The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.

2. (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
   • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent:

     He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.

   • 1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     He had been closeted with De Quadra.

3. (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
   • 1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium, or A Review of Schools‎^[1]:

     See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large;

   • 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, page 55:

     […] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.

派生語

• closeted
• closet oneself

参考

• come out
• come out of the closet

参照

アナグラム

• colets, telcos