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toilet
[ toi-lit ]
noun
- a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usually with a detachable, hinged seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.
- a lavatory.
- a bathroom.
- a dressing room, especially one containing a bath.
- the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair:
to make one's toilet; busy at her toilet.
- the dress or costume of a person; any particular costume:
toilet of white silk.
- Surgery. the cleansing of a part after childbirth or a wound after an operation.
- Archaic. dressing table.
toilet
/ ˈtɔɪlɪt /
noun
- another word for lavatory
- old-fashioned.the act of dressing and preparing oneself
to make one's toilet
- old-fashioned.a dressing table or the articles used when making one's toilet
- rare.costume
- the cleansing of a wound, etc, after an operation or childbirth
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of toilet1
Idioms and Phrases
- go down / in the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed:
The team's entire season went down the toilet.
Example Sentences
“Does the University of Maine System provide sex-separated toilet, locker room, and shower facilities for male student athletes and female student athletes?”
Air India has confirmed that one of its flights was forced to turn around last week after plastic bags, rags and clothes clogged up most of its toilets.
Taps would still have run and toilets still have flushed.
“A lot of people are like, ‘I just want to move into a completely done house, down to toilet paper holders.’”
"We weren't allowed to stand up. If we wanted to use the toilet, we were escorted by US forces, and just one of our handcuffs was taken off."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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