come out of the closet

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

come out of the closet (third-person singular simple present comes out of the closet, present participle coming out of the closet, simple past came out of the closet, past participle come out of the closet)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To tell others about one's homosexuality, bisexuality, transness, or 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

Derived terms

• come out of the broom closet (to come out as a pagan)

Translations

to tell others about a secret belief or preference

• Catalan: sortir de l'armari
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 出櫃／出柜 (ceot¹ gwai⁶), 出柜 (ceot¹ gwai⁶)

  Mandarin: 出櫃／出柜 (zh) (chūguì), 出柜 (zh) (chūguì) (slang)

• Danish: komme ud af skabet, springe ud
• Dutch: uit de kast komen
• Esperanto: elŝrankiĝi
• Finnish: tulla ulos kaapista (fi)
• French: sortir du placard (fr), faire son coming out
• German: sich outen (de)
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• Greek: εκδηλώνομαι (el) (ekdilónomai)
• Italian: dichiararsi (it), uscire allo scoperto
• Japanese: カミングアウトする (kamingu-auto suru)
• Norwegian: komme (no) ut (no) av (no) skapet
• Portuguese: sair do armário
• Russian: выходи́ть из подпо́лья impf (vyxodítʹ iz podpólʹja), вы́йти из подпо́лья pf (výjti iz podpólʹja)
• Spanish: salir del armario (es), salir del closet
• Swedish: komma ut ur garderoben (sv), komma ut (sv)
• Turkish: açılmak (tr)