The meaning of Closeting

Closeting – definition

verb
Shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study.
Usage examples:
He was closeted with the king
Synonims:
Shut away Sequester Seclude Cloister Insulate Confine Isolate

noun
A tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage.
Usage examples:
He has a closet full of designer suits

noun
Used to refer to a state of secrecy or concealment, especially about one's homosexuality.
Usage examples:
His brother's decision to come out of the closet

adjective
Secret; covert.
Usage examples:
A closet smoker

verb
Present participle of closet
Usage examples:
Two weeks before my exams i closeted myself (away) in my room with my books and i didn't speak to a…

Closeting translation into English

Closeting: translate from English into Chinese

壁橱, 锁上, 锁住

Closeting: translate from English into Dutch

In de kast zetten, Opsluiten

Closeting: translate from English into French

Placard, Sortir de l'anonymat

Closeting: translate from English into German

Schrank

Closeting: translate from English into Hindi

कोठरी

Closeting: translate from English into Italian

Chiusura

Closeting: translate from English into Korean

클로징, 들어박히다, 밀담시키다

Closeting: translate from English into Russian

Уборка, Запирать

Closeting: translate from English into Spanish

Armario, Encerrarse, Estar encerrado con

Word origin

late Middle English (denoting a private or small room): from Old French, diminutive of clos ‘closed’ (see close1).

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Closeting – similar words

closets

noun
A tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage.
Usage examples:
He has a closet full of designer suits

verb
Shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study.
Usage examples:
He was closeted with the king

adjective
Secret; covert.
Usage examples:
A closet smoker

All meanings and translations of Closets

closeted

adjective
Keeping something secret, especially the fact of being gay.
Usage examples:
She remained closeted because of her homophobic community

verb
Shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study.
Usage examples:
He was closeted with the king

adjective
Used to describe a person who is not heterosexual (= sexually attracted to men if they are a women and women if they are a man) or not cisgender (= having a gender that matches the body they were born with) but keeps that fact secret from other people
Usage examples:
The book portrays him as a closeted bisexual., we want to make it easier for people who might still…

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closet

noun
A tall cupboard or wardrobe with a door, used for storage.
Usage examples:
He has a closet full of designer suits

adjective
Secret; covert.
Usage examples:
A closet smoker

verb
Shut (someone) away, especially in private conference or study.
Usage examples:
He was closeted with the king

All meanings and translations of Closet

Closeting synonims

cloister

noun
A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.
Usage examples:
The shadowed cloisters of the convent

verb
Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.
Usage examples:
The monastery was where the brothers would cloister themselves to meditate

All meanings and translations of Cloister

confine

verb
Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).
Usage examples:
He does not confine his message to high politics

noun
The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement.
Usage examples:
Within the confines of the hall escape was difficult

verb
To keep someone or something within limits
Usage examples:
The animals were confined in a large pen., harris does not confine her stage work to broadway., can…

All meanings and translations of Confine

insulate

verb
Protect (something) by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound.
Usage examples:
Insulate and draught-proof your home

verb
To use a material to cover or go around the surface of something in order to prevent heat, electricity, etc., from escaping or entering
Usage examples:
We’ve saved a lot on our heating bills by insulating the attic., as a member of a rich and powerful…

verb
To protect someone or something from something that might harm them or it
Usage examples:
Insulate sb/sth against/from sth firms producing basic necessities are better insulated from the ef…

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isolate

verb
Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others.
Usage examples:
A country which is isolated from the rest of the world

noun
A person or thing that has been or become isolated.
Usage examples:
Social isolates often become careless of their own welfare

verb
Place or set apart

All meanings and translations of Isolate

seclude

verb
Keep (someone) away from other people.
Usage examples:
I secluded myself up here for a life of study and meditation

verb
To keep someone or something away from other people or things
Usage examples:
Typically, the bride would seclude herself in another room.

All meanings and translations of Seclude

sequester

verb
Isolate or hide away.
Usage examples:
She is sequestered in deepest dorset

noun
Another term for sequestrate.
Usage examples:
Their property was sequestered by parliament

verb
To keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case
Usage examples:
The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.

All meanings and translations of Sequester

shut away

phrasal verb
Keep someone or something inside a place so as not to be seen or contacted by other people.
Usage examples:
Annabelle was shut away in the library for most of the day with a pile of books

phrasal verb
To put a person in a place that they are not allowed or able to leave
Usage examples:
He was ten years old when he was shut away for stealing an apple., the diamonds are shut away in a …

All meanings and translations of Shut away

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