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noun

a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.

a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath.

a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.

a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths.

a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.

Often, baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla.

Usually, baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa.

a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.

the container for such a preparation.

10.

a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc.

11.

Metallurgy.

the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.

the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.

12.

the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

13.

to wash or soak in a bath.

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14.

take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English bæth; cognate with Old Frisian beth, Old Saxon, Old Norse bath, German Bad; < Germanic *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to Old High German bājan (German bähen), Swedish basa to warm; pre-Germanic *bheH- to warm, past participle *bhH-to-

Related forms

bath·less, adjective

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World English Dictionary

bath¹ (bɑːθ)

—n , pl baths
1.	a large container, esp one made of enamelled iron or plastic, used for washing or medically treating the bodyRelated: balneal
2.	the act or an instance of washing in such a container
3.	the amount of liquid contained in a bath
4.	run a bath to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
5.	(usually plural) a place that provides baths or a swimming pool for public use
6.	a. a vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature, to process it photographically, electrolytically, etc, or to lubricate it
	b. the liquid used in such a vessel

—vb
7.	(Brit) to wash in a bath

Related: balneal

[Old English bæth; compare Old High German bad, Old Norse bath; related to Swedish basa to clean with warm water, Old High German bāen to warm]

bath² (bæθ)

—n
	an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about 8.3 Imperial gallons or 10 US gallons

[Hebrew]

Bath (bɑːθ)

—n
	Latin name: Aquae Sulis a city in SW England, in Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the River Avon: famous for its hot springs; a fashionable spa in the 18th century; Roman remains, notably the baths; university (1966). Pop: 90 144 (2001)

Ba'th or Ba'ath (bɑːθ)

—n
	an Arab Socialist party, esp in Iraq and Syria, founded by Michel Aflaq in 1941. It attempts to combine Marxism with pan-Islamic nationalism

[C20: from Arabic: resurgence]

Ba'ath or Ba'ath

—n

[C20: from Arabic: resurgence]

'Ba′thi or Ba'ath

—*adj*

'Ba′thism or Ba'ath

—n

'Ba′thist or Ba'ath

—n

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Word Origin & History

bath

O.E. bæð "immersing in water, mud, etc.," also "quantity of water, etc., for bathing," from P.Gmc. *batham (cf. O.N. bað, M.Du. bat, Ger. bad), from PIE base *bhe- "to warm" (cf. L. fovere "to foment"). Original sense was of heating, not immersing in water. The city in Somerset, England

(O.E. Baðun) was so called from its hot springs.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

bath (bāth)
n. pl. baths (bā&phonth;z, bāths)

The act of soaking or cleansing the body or any of its parts, as in water.
The apparatus used in giving a bath.
The fluid used to maintain the metabolic activities of an organism.

Slang Dictionary

take a bath (on (sth)) definition

tv.
to have large financial losses on an investment. : The broker warned me that I might take a bath if I bought this stuff.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Bible Dictionary

Bath definition

a Hebrew liquid measure, the tenth part of an homer (1 Kings 7:26, 38; Ezek. 45:10, 14). It contained 8 gallons 3 quarts of our measure. "Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath" (Isa. 5:10) denotes great unproductiveness.

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Idioms & Phrases

take a bath

Experience serious financial loss, as in The company took a bath investing in that new product. This idiom, which originated in gambling, transfers washing oneself in a bathtub to being "cleaned out" financially. [Slang; first half of 1900s]

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