Closet vs. Wardrobe

Closetnoun

(obsolete) Any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.

Closetnoun

Any private or inner room, particularly:

Closetnoun

(obsolete) A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.

Closetnoun

(archaic) A private room used for prayer or other devotions.

Closetnoun

A place of (usually fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.

Closetnoun

(archaic) The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.

Closetnoun

A private cabinet, particularly:

Closetnoun

(obsolete) One used to store valuables.

Closetnoun

(archaic) One used to store curiosities.

Closetnoun

One used to store food or other household supplies: a cupboard.

Closetnoun

(figuratively) A secret or hiding place, particularly the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.

Closetnoun

Any small room or side-room, particularly:

Closetnoun

(US) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

Closetnoun

(obsolete) nodot=a or later (UK) water closet: a room containing a toilet.

Closetnoun

(heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.

Closetnoun

A sewer.

Closetadjective

(obsolete) Private.

Closetadjective

Secret, especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet; closeted.

Closetverb

(transitive) To shut away for private discussion.

Closetverb

(transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

Closetverb

(transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Closetnoun

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

Closetnoun

A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.

Closetverb

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

Closetverb

To make into a closet for a secret interview.

Closetnoun

a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

Closetnoun

a toilet in England

Closetnoun

a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

Closetnoun

a small private room for study or prayer

Closetverb

confine to a small space, as for intensive work

Closetadjective

(of information) given in confidence or in secret;

Closetadjective

indulging only covertly;

Closetnoun

a tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage

Closetnoun

a small room, especially one used for storing things or for private study.

Closetnoun

short for water closet

Closetnoun

used to refer to a state of secrecy or concealment, especially about one's homosexuality

Closetadjective

secret; covert

Closetverb

shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study

Closet

A closet (especially in North American usage) is an enclosed space, with a door, used for storage, particularly that of clothes. Fitted closets are built into the walls of the house so that they take up no apparent space in the room.

Wardrobenoun

(obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.

Wardrobenoun

(figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.

Wardrobenoun

(figuratively) The building housing such a department.

Wardrobenoun

(obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.

Wardrobenoun

A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.

Wardrobenoun

(figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).

Wardrobenoun

A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.

Wardrobenoun

A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.

Wardrobenoun

Anything that similarly stores or houses something.

Wardrobenoun

The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.

Wardrobenoun

(figuratively) Any collection of clothing.

Wardrobenoun

Any collection of anything.

Wardrobenoun

(obsolete) A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemism) urinating and defecating.

Wardrobenoun

Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game.

Wardrobeverb

(intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department, to provide clothing or sets of clothes.

Wardrobenoun

A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

Wardrobenoun

Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.

Wardrobenoun

A privy.

Wardrobenoun

a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

Wardrobenoun

collection of clothing belonging to one person

Wardrobenoun

collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company

Wardrobe

A wardrobe or armoire is a standing closet used for storing clothes. The earliest wardrobe was a chest, and it was not until some degree of luxury was attained in regal palaces and the castles of powerful nobles that separate accommodation was provided for the apparel of the great.