Synonyms for bathroom
Most common
bath powder room closet washroom rest room comfort room portable vault
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Toilet
toilet UK AU IN, lavatory formal, washroom, bath, water closet UK, closet, powder room, loo, portable toilet, urinal, can, earth closet, latrine, lav, john, comfort station US, head, convenience, necessary, dunny, toilet room dated, office dated
2. Comfort room
rest room, comfort room, smallest room, women's room, cloak room, men's room, wardrobe, johnny house US, gentlemen's room, ladies, women's, men's, house of office dated, throne room slang, closet of ease dated, closet of decency dated, usual offices dated
3. Necessary place
place, necessary place dated, purging place dated
Other
full bathroom US, portable, vault, gong-pit, three-quarter bathroom US, cloaca, siege, nettie informal, shield dated UK, lats slang, portaloo rare UK, necessarium rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A room containing a shower or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
- n. 2
A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.
Most Americans don't know 'WC' and many Brits mock 'bathroom' but almost everyone understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.
Related words
- Word family
- bathroomette
- Phrases
- half bathroom bathroom tissue bathroom break bathroom bag bathroom cabinet bathroom kit full bathroom three-quarter bathroom
- Is a kind of
- outbuilding outhouse room
Forms
- Plural
- bathrooms → toilets, lavatories, washrooms, baths…
Example sentences
- bath Soon the bath was cool enough for him to get into.
- closet Tom took his coat out of the closet and put it on.
- washroom Shall I go to the washroom for a moment, I wonder.
By length
- 3 letters
- can1, loo1, lav
- 4 letters
- head1, john1, bath1, lats1
- 5 letters
- place1, vault1, siege1, dunny
- 6 letters
- office2, ladies2, toilet2, shield1, closet2, urinal, nettie2, cloaca
- 7 letters
- latrine2
- 8 letters
- portable3, wardrobe2, lavatory4, washroom2, portaloo
- 9 letters
- necessary4
- 11 letters
- convenience3, necessarium
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (office2 = 2 syllables).