Complete Definition of "come out of the closet"

English
wikipedia|Coming out
wikipedia|The closet

Verb
en-verb|inf=to come out of the closet|comes out of the closet|coming out of the closet|came out of the closet|come out of the closet

  1. context|intransitive|idiom To tell others about one's homosexuality or bisexuality where previously this had been kept secret.
  2. context|by extension To tell others about any minority or disapproved-of belief, preference, etc., where previously this had been kept secret.

#:She finally came out of the closet to her religious family regarding her atheism.

Synonyms
come out

Translations

Catalan: sortir de l'armari
Danish: komme ud af skabet
mid
Spanish: Salir del closet

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