See Also: Monte Alban(encyclopedia)
Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Alban(tourism)
closet(1)(dictionary)
Alban(medicine)
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Alban, Saint(dictionary)
closet 1, noun(dictionary)
closet 2, adjective(dictionary)
closet 3, verb(dictionary)
Kohler, Alban(medicine)

closet 1, noun (oh) and Monte Alban (sh)


closet 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: clos 'enclosed place', from Latin clausum, from clausus; CLOSE2]
especially AmE a cupboard built into the wall of a room from the floor to the ceiling
-see also wardrobe wardrobe
::a closet full of beautiful clothes
come out of the closet
a) to tell people that you are homosexual after hiding the fact
-synonym come out come out
b) to admit something or to start to discuss something that was kept secret before
be in the closet
AmE informal to not tell people that you are homosexual
-see also water closet , a skeleton in the closet at skeleton (5)

Monte Alban (sh)




Ridgetop site of the ruins of the ancient centre of Zapotec culture, located near Oaxaca, Mex.

Construction at the site began around the 8th century BC. Monte Alban reached its height AD 250-700. The site contains great plazas, truncated pyramids, a tlachtli court for an ancient ballgame, underground passageways, and about 170 tombs, the most elaborate yet uncovered in the New World. The great plaza atop the highest hill is flanked by four platforms; two temples stand on the platform to the south. In its final phase, Monte Alban was inhabited by the Mixtec.