Synonyms of the word lavatory


LAVATORYBASIN - BATHROOM - CAN - COMMODE - CRAPPER - JOHN - LAV - POT - POTTY - PRIVY - ROOM - SINK - STOOL - THRONE - TOILET - WASHBASIN - WASHBOWL - WASHSTAND

lavatory

  • n. A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly.
  • n. Handwashing, particularly.
  • n. (obsolete) A liquid used in washing; a lotion; a wash; a rinse.
  • n. (dated) A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands.
  • n. (euphemistic) A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
  • n. (Britain, New England) A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
  • n. (dated) A place to wash clothes: a laundry.
  • n. (obsolete) A place where gold is panned.
  • n. (obsolete) A paved room in a mortuary where corpses are kept under a shower of disinfecting fluid.
  • adj. (dated) Washing, or cleansing by washing.

basin

  • n. A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
  • n. (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.
  • n. A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
  • n. (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
  • n. (geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.

bathroom

  • n. A room containing a bathtub and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
  • n. (chiefly US, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a…

can

  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
  • v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
  • n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
  • n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  • n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
  • n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
  • n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
  • n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
  • n. (slang) Jail or prison.
  • n. (slang) Headphones.
  • n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
  • n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
  • v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
  • v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
  • v. To shut up.
  • v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

commode

  • n. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
  • n. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
  • n. (euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
  • n. (euphemistic) A toilet.
  • n. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.

crapper

  • n. (vulgar slang) A chamber pot or toilet, particularly (dated) a flush toilet by Thomas Crapper.
  • n. (vulgar slang) A lavatory or outhouse.
  • adj. comparative form of crap: more crap.
  • n. A half-glass of whiskey.

john

  • n. (slang) A prostitute's client.
  • n. (slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (…
  • n. (slang) A generic term for Western men while traveling in East Asia.
  • n. A male mule.

lav

  • n. (Britain, slang) Clipping of lavatory.

pot

  • n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
  • n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
  • n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
  • n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
  • n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
  • n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
  • n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
  • n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
  • n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
  • n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
  • n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
  • v. To put (something) into a pot.
  • v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
  • v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
  • v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
  • v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  • v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
  • v. (transitive) To drain.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
  • v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
  • n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
  • n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.

potty

  • n. (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children.
  • n. (diminutive) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an…
  • v. (intransitive, childish) Variant of go potty.
  • adj. (informal) Insane.
  • adj. (golf) Easy to pot the ball on.

privy

  • adj. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
  • adj. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • adj. With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
  • n. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
  • n. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
  • n. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
  • n. (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

room

  • adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
  • adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
  • adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
  • n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
  • n. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  • n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
  • n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  • n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
  • n. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  • n. (countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
  • n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  • n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
  • n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
  • n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  • n. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room.
  • n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  • v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  • v. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

sink

  • v. (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.
  • v. (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished.
  • v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To conceal and appropriate.
  • v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
  • v. (transitive, slang, archaic) To reduce or extinguish by payment.
  • v. (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
  • v. (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent…
  • n. A basin used for holding water for washing.
  • n. A drain for carrying off wastewater.
  • n. (geology) A sinkhole.
  • n. A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
  • n. A heat sink.
  • n. A place that absorbs resources or energy.
  • n. (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
  • n. (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events; event sink.
  • n. (graph theory) a destination vertex in a transportation network.

stool

  • n. A seat for one person without a back or armrest, particularly.
  • n. (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
  • n. (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling: a shit.
  • n. (archaic) A decoy.
  • n. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
  • n. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
  • v. (chiefly medicine) To produce stool, to defecate.
  • v. (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to…
  • n. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
  • v. (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

throne

  • n. An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal…
  • n. (humorous) Other seats, particularly.
  • n. (figuratively) Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
  • n. (Christianity) An order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.

toilet

  • n. (archaic) Personal grooming, in other words washing, dressing, etc.
  • n. (now rare) One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
  • n. (archaic) A dressing room.
  • n. A room or enclosed area containing a toilet: a bathroom or water closet.
  • n. (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.
  • n. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
  • n. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly those with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat…
  • n. (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.
  • n. (obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room.
  • n. (obsolete) A dressing table.
  • v. (dated) To dress and groom oneself.
  • v. To use the toilet.
  • v. To assist another (a child etc.) in using the toilet.

washbasin

  • n. A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply…

washbowl

  • n. a sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and…
  • n. a basin for washing the face and hands; a washbasin or wash-hand basin ((Britain)).

washstand

  • n. (furniture) A table containing a basin and a pitcher of water for washing.
  • n. (dated) In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed…

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