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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
/ ˈɔɪɪ /
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
Parents in the Scottish Borders say they feel "elated" after a judge ruled that Scottish schools must provide single-sex toilets for pupils.
The local authority had installed only gender neutral toilets at the replacement Earlston primary school, which recently opened.
It is hoped a device adapted to allow immobile female hospital patients to go to the toilet more easily could be rolled out nationwide.
Many write poetry, go on dates, don’t need help to use a toilet.
Pushed further for clarification on whether a trans woman should use the men's or women's toilets she repeated: "The ruling is clear."
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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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