Closet vs. Dresser — What's the Difference?

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.

One that dresses

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

A wardrobe assistant, as for an actor.

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

A chest of drawers often supporting a mirror and typically used for holding clothes and personal items.

Secret; covert

A cupboard or set of shelves for dishes or kitchen utensils.

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

An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.

A cabinet or enclosed recess for linens, household supplies, or clothing.

An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.

A small private chamber, as for study or prayer.

One who dresses in a particular way.

A water closet; a toilet.

A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).

A state of secrecy or cautious privacy

A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.

To enclose or shut up in a private room, as for discussion

(medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.

Private; confidential

(UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.

Being so or engaging only in private; secret

A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.

Based on theory and speculation rather than practice.

(dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.

(mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

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

One who dresses or prepares stone.

Any private or inner room, particularly:

One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

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

A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

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

An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

A place of fanciful contemplation and theorizing.

A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

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

A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror.

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

Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

A private cabinet, particularly:

A person who dresses in a particular way;

(obsolete) One used to store valuables.

A wardrobe assistant for an actor

(archaic) One used to store curiosities.

Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup

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

A cabinet with shelves

(slang, uncommon) closet case.

Any small room or side-room, particularly:

One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.

(obsolete) nodot=a, water closet: a room containing a toilet.

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

A sewer.

A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.

(obsolete) private

Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet)

Denoting anything kept a secret or private.

(transitive) To shut away for private discussion.

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

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

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

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

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

To make into a closet for a secret interview.

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

A toilet in England

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

A small private room for study or prayer

Confine to a small space, as for intensive work

(of information) given in confidence or in secret;

Indulging only covertly;