toilet
A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
Example
“Sorry, I was in the toilet.”
Other meanings
A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.
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.
“My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.”
Synonyms
- can
- bathroom
A kind of
- room
Kinds of toilet
- head
- public toilet
- water closet
Related words
- nontoilet
- toilegami
- toiletful
- Toiletgate
- toiletless
- toiletlike
- toiletware
- toilety
- washlet
- aural toilet
- Detoilet
- down the toilet
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle French "toilette".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “toilet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.