English-Portuguese translations for closet

• armário
  É chegada a hora de tirarmos a questão das doenças mentais do armário da denegação e da vergonha e de a enfrentarmos de forma aberta, racional e eficaz. The time has now come to bring the issue of mental illness out of the closet of denial and shame and deal with it openly, rationally and effectively.
• guarda-roupas

Definition of closet

• Any private area, ''particularly'bowers in the open air
• Any private or inner room, ''particularly''
• A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord
• A private cabinet, ''particularly:''
• Any small room or side-room, ''particularly''
• An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad
• A sewer
• Private
• To shut away for private discussion
• To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation
• To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement

Examples

• The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
• Hes a closet case.
• The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. Were all worried what will be announced when they exit.

Related words

• closeted
• water-closet
• watercloset
• closet gay
• closet homosexual
• water closet
• come out of the closet
• dish draining closet
• walk-in closet