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.
a lavatory.
a bathroom.
toilet bowl.
a dressing room, especially one containing a bath.
the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair: to make one's toilet; busy at her toilet.
toilet set.
the dress or costume of a person; any particular costume: toilet of white silk.
Surgery. the cleansing of a part after childbirth or a wound after an operation.
Archaic. dressing table.
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Idioms for toilet
go down / in the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed: The team's entire season went down the toilet.
Also toilette(for defs. 6, 8).
Origin of toilet
1530–40; <French toilette small cloth, doily, dressing table, equivalent to toiletoil2 + -ette-et
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A cat politely peeing into a toilet—it almost sounds like a dream.
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It’s 12 pounds when it’s empty, and takes some forethought to load and set up, so it’s not the most mobile of bathrooms, but it feels the most like an indoor toilet.
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Let’s say you only have one bathroom and midway through the project you realize you can’t repair your toilet before the end of the day and need to call in an expert to help.
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It’s all part of a carefully crafted set of green syllabi schools — even though they’re shut for the moment because of the pandemic — are developing Secmol students working on dry toilets.
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Rogen refuses to share his toilet paper with Franco, and then they run into trouble starting a fire.
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He was in the bathroom, perhaps trying to flush some pot down the toilet, when a cop burst in.
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By this time there were three of us outside the toilet and one of us ran to get security.
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He would load his chair with groceries and other purchases, once a 30-roll package of toilet paper.
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Whenever I had to use the toilet I had to knock on the door and ask permission.
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This sponge is specially employed for the toilet, and its price is high.
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You certainly can go on with your toilet and obtain your meal after half an hour's delay.
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It is frequently sold in the shops as palm oil, and of late has entered largely into the composition of toilet soaps.
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At reveille Frank was, as a rule, very prompt about springing out of bed and hurrying into his clothes and through his toilet.
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A similar but smaller bag is useful to be reserved entirely as a toilet bag.
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British Dictionary definitions for toilet
toilet
/ (ˈtɔɪlɪt) /
noun
another word for lavatory
old-fashionedthe act of dressing and preparing oneselfto make one's toilet
old-fashioneda dressing table or the articles used when making one's toilet
rarecostume
the cleansing of a wound, etc, after an operation or childbirth
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