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Toilet   /tˈɔɪlət/   Listen
Toilet

noun
1.
A room or building equipped with one or more toilets.  Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, privy.
2.
A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.  Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne.
3.
Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money.  Synonyms: gutter, sewer.  "All that work went down the sewer" , "Pensions are in the toilet"
4.
The act of dressing and preparing yourself.  Synonym: toilette.



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"Toilet" Quotes from Famous Books



... down-stairs when Martha's toilet was complete, speculating on what Thursa would be like. Martha was plainly nervous, which Pearl saw, but would not recognize. They were not left long in doubt, for in a few minutes they heard Arthur driving up to the door. Pearl and Martha held each other's hands ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung

... her?" said Berry. "With your lawful wife working herself to death on the first floor unpacking your sponge-bag, you exchanged secrets of the toilet with a honey-toned vamp? Oh, you vicious libertine.... Will she be at the ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... She first finished her toilet, and then approached her little bed, and stood by its side for a moment hesitating. She did not want to pray, and yet she felt impelled to go down on her knees. As she knelt with her curls falling about her face, and her ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade

... you say, we can be with them and not of them. Just hand out my satin stock from that drawer and give my coat a dash with the hand brush!" and inhaling a deep breath, the little man reluctantly closed the door and began a hasty and vigorous toilet. ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens

... as he took the back lanes home,—after having regained his scattered senses and put his upset toilet into half-respectable shape—cursed himself for his folly and wished that what he had tried to draw Ralston on were really true; that the document he so much dreaded and desired to possess were really ashes long since ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson


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