toilet

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.

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See toilet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. Obsolete a dressing table
  2. the process of dressing or grooming oneself, esp., of dressing one's hair
  3. toilette; dress; attire; costume
    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
  4. 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

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

See toilet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. 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.
  2. The act or process of dressing or grooming oneself.
  3. Dress; attire; costume.
  4. The cleansing of a body area as part of a surgical or medical procedure.
  5. 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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