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bathroom definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet [syn: bathroom, bath]
2: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1780 1. a room containing a bathtub or shower and usually a sink and toilet 2. lavatory 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a room containing a bath and usu. other washing facilities. 2 esp. US a room containing a lavatory.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bathrooms) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet. N-COUNT 2. A bathroom is a room in a house or public building that contains a toilet. (AM; in BRIT, usually use toilet) She had gone in to use the bathroom. = rest room N-SING: usu the N 3. People say that they are going to the bathroom when they want to say that they are going to use the toilet. PHRASE: V inflects [politeness]

Moby Thesaurus

WC, backhouse, bagnio, balneae, balneum, basement, bath, bathhouse, baths, caldarium, can, closet, comfort station, convenience, crapper, earth closet, head, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, mikvah, necessary, outhouse, powder room, privy, public baths, rest room, sauna, spa, steam room, sudarium, sudatorium, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, toilet, toilet room, urinal, washroom, water closet, watering place