toilet

[ toi-lit ]
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noun
  1. 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.

  2. a lavatory.

  1. a bathroom.

  2. a dressing room, especially one containing a bath.

  3. the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair: to make one's toilet; busy at her toilet.

  4. the dress or costume of a person; any particular costume: toilet of white silk.

  5. Surgery. the cleansing of a part after childbirth or a wound after an operation.

  6. Archaic. dressing table.

Idioms about toilet

  1. go down / in the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed: The team's entire season went down the toilet.

Origin of toilet

1
1530–40; <French toilette small cloth, doily, dressing table, equivalent to toiletoil2 + -ette-et

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British Dictionary definitions for toilet

toilet

/ (ˈtɔɪlɪt) /


noun
  1. another word for lavatory

  2. old-fashioned the act of dressing and preparing oneself: to make one's toilet

  1. old-fashioned a dressing table or the articles used when making one's toilet

  2. rare costume

  3. the cleansing of a wound, etc, after an operation or childbirth

Origin of toilet

1
C16: from French toilette dress, from toile

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