bathroom

UK/ˈbɑːθɹʊm/US/ˈbæθˌɹum/

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Other forms: bathrooms

A bathroom is the room with a bath or shower, a washbasin and usually a toilet. The bathroom is upstairs, a family bathroom, clean the bathroom.

In American English, bathroom is the standard polite word for a lavatory anywhere, including one with no bath in it, which is why go to the bathroom is said in restaurants. British English keeps toilet, loo and lavatory for that and bathroom for the room. Note en suite, cloakroom, and downstairs toilet — all British terms for arrangements Americans would simply call bathrooms.

Definitions of bathroom

1nounbathroomThe room with a bath or shower and a washbasin.A1
“The bathroom was last decorated in about 1978.”

bathroom is a room.

Where it comes from

From bath + room. From bath + room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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bathroom in the wild

A bathroom is a room in which people wash their bodies or parts thereof.
Bathroom
Second floor, front to back, on one side, bedroom, bathroom and bedroom; while on the other side, bedroom, stairway and bedroom.
American Foursquare
The upstairs bathroom would generally be placed above the kitchen, so that the plumbing could run directly from one to the other.
American Foursquare
The case has been credited with setting off a wave of bathroom bills across the United States in the years following.
Bathroom bill
Departments of Justice and Education stating that schools which receive federal money must treat a student's gender identity as their sex (for example, in regard to bathrooms).
Bathroom bill

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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