Usually means: Hiding one's true identity secretly.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. closeted: Merriam-Webster
  2. closeted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. closeted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. closeted: Collins English Dictionary
  5. closeted: Vocabulary.com
  6. Closeted, closeted: Wordnik
  7. closeted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. closeted: Wiktionary
  9. closeted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. closeted: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. closeted: Dictionary.com
  12. closeted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Closeted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. closeted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. closeted: FreeDictionary.org
  16. closeted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. closeted: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. closeted: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLBT DICTIONARY (No longer online)
  2. closeted: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See closet as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
adjective:  (by extension) Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency, or fondness; secret.
adjective:  Confined.
adjective:  sheltered; protected.

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