Thesaurus:bathroom

English

Noun

Sense: a room or enclosed structure used for urination and defecation

Synonyms
Standard

(obsolete)

Dialectal
Euphemisms

(UK)

(US)

(obsolete)

Slang

(UK)

(US)

(Australia)

(Ireland)


Hyponyms

A public bathroom reserved for use by men

(dated)

(UK)

(childish)

A public bathroom reserved for use by women

(childish)

A permanent outbuilding used as a bathroom

See Thesaurus:outhouse

A secondary bathroom containing only a toilet and sink

(Commonwealth)

(US)

A temporary structure used as a bathroom

(UK)

(US)

Other

(UK)

(US)

(Philippines)

(obsolete)


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See also

Notes

  1. ^ Although British English also uses the term bathroom to refer euphemistically to a place to urinate and defecate, it uses it much less often than American English in reference to public toilets.

Further reading

  • “191. receptacle” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “bathroom” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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