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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
The changes were a U-turn from a policy introduced six years ago that allowed people to linger in Starbucks outlets and use their toilets without making a purchase.
He had food and water, but the toilets were not working.
Although the bathrooms are divided by gender — and marked with Basquiat-style dinosaur imagery — on the nights when Simon Says takes over the Spotlight, those designations are ignored, and the toilets become unisex.
However, he added that there would not be "toilet police" in government buildings.
One such example might be a single toilet in a small business such as a café.
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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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