bathroom
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From bath + room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -uːm
Noun
bathroom (plural bathrooms)
- A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom
- Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom
- Hypernym: room
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I wash in the bathroom.
Audio (US): (file)
- I wash in the bathroom.
- (chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, Philippines, euphemistic) A lavatory (area where one washes or bathes): a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.
- Most Americans don't know 'WC' and many Brits mock 'bathroom' but almost everyone understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.
Usage notes
From the beginning of the 20th century, bathroom has been the generic word for a room with toilet facilities in American English,[1] whereas Britons have continued to say lavatory relatively more frequently, and often loo or WC for a room with a toilet but no bath.
In some contexts, bathroom refers more particularly to the toilet facilities of a private residence, distinguished from public buildings' restrooms (US), washrooms (Canada), men's rooms, ladies' rooms, etc.
Derived terms
- bathroom bag
- bathroom bill
- bathroom break
- bathroomette
- bathroomful
- bathroomgoer
- bathroomish
- bathroomless
- bathroomlike
- bathroom scales
- bathroom singer
- bathroom tissue
- bathroomware
- bathroomy
- do you need to use the bathroom
- full bathroom
- go to the bathroom
- half bathroom
- multibathroom
- quarter bathroom
- split bathroom
- three-quarter bathroom
- use the bathroom
Descendants
Translations
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Verb
bathroom (third-person singular simple present bathrooms, present participle bathrooming, simple past and past participle bathroomed)
- (medicine, transitive) To assist a patient with using the toilet and general personal hygiene.
References
- English compound terms
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/uːm
- Rhymes:English/uːm/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- American English
- South African English
- Canadian English
- Philippine English
- English euphemisms
- English terms with usage examples
- English verbs
- en:Medicine
- English transitive verbs
- en:Bathing
- en:Rooms
- en:Toilet (room)