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English
Noun
Sense: a room or enclosed structure used for urination and defecation
Synonyms
- bathroom (US)
- bog (vulgar slang, UK)
- bogger (slang, AU)
- brasco (slang, AU)
- can (slang, US)
- carsey (slang, UK)
- cloaca (obsolete)
- closet (obsolete)
- closet of decency (obsolete)
- closet of ease (obsolete)
- cludgie (Scots)
- cottage (UK gay, slang)
- crapper (vulgar slang)
- dike (AU&NZ, slang)
- dunny (slang, AU&NZ)
- facilities
- geography [⇒ thesaurus] (slang, UK)
- House of Lords (dated jocular slang, UK)
- house of office (obsolete)
- jacks (slang, Irish)
- jacques (obsolete)
- jakes (Irish)
- john (slang, US)
- karzy (slang, UK)
- khazi (slang, UK)
- kocay (obsolete)
- ladies and gentlemen (rare)
- latrine
- lats (UK, slang)
- lav (UK, slang)
- lavatory
- lavabo (jocular slang)
- lavvy (slang, UK)
- loo (slang, UK)
- necessarium (humorous)
- necessary
- necessary place (obsolete)
- necessary room
- neddy (Geordie, obsolete)
- netty (Geordie)
- office [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
- place
- potty (childish)
- privy (dated)
- purging place (obsolete)
- restroom [⇒ thesaurus] (US)
- shitter (vulgar slang)
- six (North Wales)
- small room
- smallest room
- teahouse (US gay, slang, dated)
- tearoom (US gay, slang, dated)
- toilet [⇒ thesaurus]
- toilet room (dated)
- throne-room (jocular slang)
- urination station (slang)
- usual offices (UK)
- vault (obsolete)
- washroom (US, Canada)
- water closet (UK)
- WC (UK)
- withdraught (obsolete)
Hyponyms
- A public bathroom reserved for use by men
- A public bathroom reserved for use by women
- A permanent outbuilding used as a bathroom
- A secondary bathroom containing only a toilet and sink
- A temporary structure used as a bathroom
- Other
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Notes
Although British English also uses the term bathroom to refer euphemistically to a place to urinate and defecate, it uses it much less often than American English in reference to public toilets.
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