Toilet


noun
1.
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.
2.
a lavatory.
3.
a bathroom.
4.
toilet bowl.
5.
a dressing room, especially one containing a bath.
6.
the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair:
to make one’s toilet; busy at her toilet.
7.
toilet set.
8.
the dress or costume of a person; any particular costume:
toilet of white silk.
9.
Surgery. the cleansing of a part after childbirth or a wound after an operation.
10.
Archaic. dressing table.
Idioms
11.
go down / in the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed:
The team’s entire season went down the toilet.
noun
1.
another word for lavatory
2.
(old-fashioned) the act of dressing and preparing oneself: to make one’s toilet
3.
(old-fashioned) a dressing table or the articles used when making one’s toilet
4.
(rare) costume
5.
the cleansing of a wound, etc, after an operation or childbirth

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