Toilet

Quick meaning: Toilet is a noun meaning (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.

Meaning

(figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.

More Meanings

1. (now historical or archaic) Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.
2. (now rare, archaic) One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
3. (UK, India, Australia, Hong Kong) A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
4. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.
5. (obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
6. (obsolete) The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.
7. (archaic) A dressing room.

Example Sentences

Sorry, I was in the toilet.

Look around you. It's a toilet.

My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.

Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].

Word Forms

• toilets
• toilette
• toileting
• toiletting
• toileted
• toiletted

Synonyms for toilet

Depending on context, synonyms include bog, can, commode, crapper, donniker, dunny.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bathroom, lav, commode, lavatory, crapper, stool.

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