lavatory Definition
lava·tory (lav′ə tôr′ē)
noun pl. -·ries
- Now Rare a bowl or basin, esp. one with faucets and drainage, for washing the face and hands; washbowl
- a room equipped with a washbowl and flush toilet; toilet
- Chiefly Brit. a flush toilet
Etymology: LL lavatorium < L lavare, to wash: see lave
lavatory Synonyms
lavatory Usage Examples
Converse of object
- flush: The water is then recycled and used for flushing the lavatories.
- visit: Email NOW - CHANGE YOUR LIFE Remember MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Do you visit the lavatory more than once a night?
- use: The secret is: don't use the lavatory within 20 miles of a city.
- have: He said they had a tippler lavatory out in the yard.
- provide: The Community ICT Center has to provide separate lavatories, for example, and suitable car parking for users.
Adjective modifier
- disused: PT gear to be stored in a cupboard in the disused lavatory at the entrance.
- outside: For instance, we will invest £ 30 million to ensure that within 12 months, no child has to use an outside lavatory.
- public: Everyone on the planet must have used a public lavatory at some point in their life.
- accessible: An accessible lavatory is available in the State Rooms.
- disabled: Within the Festival of Speed site there are disabled lavatories in various locations.
- separate: A shower room and separate lavatory are on the first floor.
Modifies a noun
- cistern: There then follows the title sequence proper for The Filth, which features Inspector Drury collecting a bribe hidden in a lavatory cistern.
- attendant: His reply was: " I would have got the job of lavatory attendant; maybe today I would have been a superintendent.
- bowl: Visitors are told to never, ever put toilet paper down the lavatory bowl.
- pan: Marks have vanished in basins and lavatory pans and glasses dry without water marks.
- basin: Vomiting from the drugs, he had hit his head on the lavatory basin.
- seat: No detail is missed from towel warmer to white cotton robes to walnut lavatory seat.
Noun used with modifier
- downstairs: There is a large utility room housing the washing machine and drier, freezer, a second fridge, and a downstairs lavatory.
- lady: Baby changing may be done in the ladies lavatory.
- school: A stock example is that school lavatories are capital spending; more money for science teachers is current spending.

