toilet

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A room or enclosed area containing a fixture used for urination and defecation (i.e. a toilet (sense 2)): a bathroom or water closet.
2. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.
3. A very shabby or dirty place.
4. A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation (i.e. a toilet (sense 2)) and sink but no bathtub or shower.
5. (obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
6. (obsolete) The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.
7. Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.
8. One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
9. A dressing room.
10. (obsolete) A chamber pot.

Verb

1. To dress and groom oneself.
2. To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet.
3. To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.

Sinònims

lavatory

bathroom

restroom

🚻

washroom

privy

water closet

loo

WC

🚾

latrine

john

can

outhouse

lav

toilette

rest room

bog

dressing

cloakroom

powder room

water-closet

W.C.

stool

bath

🛀

comfort station

throne

grooming

waiting room

gutter

dress

👗

embellishment

attire

facilities

convenience

sewer

potty

pot

toilet bowl

w.c.

crapper

commode

boudoir

beautification

rig

ruin

scouring

scrub

shitter

shower

🚿

toilets

bathe

trap door

urinal

wardrobe

backhouse

coatroom

personal adornment

wash room

loo

apparel

dressing oneself

netty

washery

W.C

personal decoration

dressing-up

toilet facility

the ladies’ room/the mens’ room

the ladies’/the gents’

morning toilet

pissery

nettie

bathroom

washroom

restroom

🚻

privy

decay

decline

declension

decoration

degradation

dressing room

dressing-room

dressing table

flush toilet

habiliments

jakes

johnny

latrines

locker room

clothing

makeup

ornateness

adorning

pisser

bog

cloaca

public toilet

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈtɔɪ.lət/

Etimologia (Anglès)

From Middle French toilette (“small cloth”), diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.

Frases

They even demanded separate eating and toilet facilities .