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Meaning of toilet | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈtɔɪ.lət

Definitions

  1. A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
    Australia, Hong-Kong, UK
  2. bath
  3. A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.
    Australia, Hong-Kong, New-Zealand, UK
  4. bathroom
  5. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.
  6. A very shabby or dirty place.
    figuratively
  7. A coating or glaze applied to food, particularly in confections like alfajores or pastries. This can refer to a chocolate or sugar glaze, often used to cover desserts and provide a smooth or shiny finish.
  8. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
    obsolete
  9. first-person singular present indicative of bañar
  10. The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.
    obsolete
  11. Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.
    archaic, historical
  12. One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
    archaic
  13. A dressing room.
    archaic
  14. A chamber pot.
    obsolete
  15. A woman.
    derogatory

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca ayaqyolu
Беларуская прыбіра́льня туалет
Čeština toaleta záchod
Cymraeg toiled
Dansk toilet wc
Ελληνικά λεκάνη τουαλέτα
Eesti pott tualett
Français cabinets toilette toilettes w.-c.
Gaeilge maisiúchán
Gàidhlig taigh beag
Galego váter
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi lua
עברית אסלה
Magyar toalett vécé WC
Հայերեն զուգարան
Bahasa Indonesia kloset toilet WC
Íslenska klósett snyrting
日本語 便器
한국어 변기
Kurdî lavabo vêce WC
Latina latrina mundus
Lëtzebuergesch Klo
Lietuvių klozetas
Te Reo Māori hamuti heketua
Македонски шолја
മലയാളം കക്കൂസ്
Bahasa Melayu jamban kamar air tandas
Malti tojlit
Nederlands kleedkamer toilet toiletpot wc wc-pot
Polski klozet sedes toaleta ubikacja
Română closet privată toaleta vece
සිංහල වැසිකිළිය
Slovenščina stranišče
Српски klozet lavabo veče нужник тоалет
Kiswahili choo
தமிழ் கக்கூசு
ไทย โถส้วม
Tagalog inidoro palikuran
Türkçe tuvalet
Tiếng Việt cầu tiêu xí bệt

Examples

“Sorry, I was in the toilet.”
“He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.”
“He wet his thumb with saliva pressing on the tongue, ran it up and down faster over the letter 'I' of 'TOILET', the 'LADIES TOILET' was transformed into 'LADIES TO LET' in no time.”
“My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.”
“Look around you. It's a toilet.”
“Mr. Gaunt was urbane and smiling again, not a hair out of place. "Do you like this little town? Do you love it? […]" / […] "I hate this fucking toilet," he said to Leland Gaunt.”
“And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, / Each silver vase in mystic order laid.”
“Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].”
“Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet.”
“Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets, smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.”
“Here, at night, a lonely but brilliantly neon-illuminated figure, I performed my toilet, watched incuriously by the Burmese seated at the tables of the tea-shops below.”
“It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face.”
“"It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."”
“I’m not interested in toilets and I don’t think a gf [Girlfriend] is needed to live a fulfilling life.”
“A user, @blacklister, concludes that “toilets are as vacuous as their value besides pleasing men”, with a remark on how women should be handed out by the state to every man to minimise inceldom.”
“I can’t bare listening to a toilet talk. I don’t wanna listen to toilet songs,or watch them in movies. They have nothing to offer other than sexuality”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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