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The definition of a toilet is a seat with a hole or hole in the ground where a person urinates or has a bowel movement, or a room where this seat or hole in the ground is located.

(noun)

An example of a toilet is a restroom.

Toilet means something related to grooming or getting dressed.

(adjective)

An example of toilet are travel-sized soaps and shampoos; toilet items.

See toilet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Obsolete a dressing table
the process of dressing or grooming oneself, esp., of dressing one's hair
toilette; dress; attire; costume
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1. a room, shelter, etc. in which to defecate or urinate; specif., a small room with a bowl-shaped porcelain fixture for this purpose
2. such a fixture, usually with a hinged seat and seat cover, having a device for flushing with water or, sometimes, a chemical solution, which is held in an attached tank
the cleaning and dressing of a wound, esp. in surgery

Origin: MFr toilette, orig., cloth covering used in shaving or hairdressing < OFr toile, cloth: see toil

adjective

of or for dressing or grooming oneself: toilet articles
☆ for a toilet (): a toilet brush

See toilet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. A fixture for defecation and urination, consisting of a bowl fitted with a hinged seat and connected to a waste pipe and a flushing apparatus; a privy.
b. A room or booth containing such a fixture.
The act or process of dressing or grooming oneself.
Dress; attire; costume.
The cleansing of a body area as part of a surgical or medical procedure.
Archaic A dressing table.

Origin:

Origin: French toilette, clothes bag

Origin: , from Old French tellette

Origin: , diminutive of teile, cloth; see toil²

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