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toilet(noun)/ˈtɔɪlət/ /ˈtɔɪlət/- a large bowl attached to a pipe that you sit on or stand over when you get rid of waste matter from your body
- Have you flushed the toilet?
- I need to go to the toilet (= use the toilet).
- a toilet seat
- the toilet bowl
- toilet facilities
- Do you need the toilet?
- The girl asked if she could use the toilet.
- The hotels usually have modern showers and toilets.
Extra Examples- He flushed the letter down the toilet.
- The caravan is equipped with a sink and a flush toilet.
- a room containing a toilet
- Every flat has its own bathroom and toilet.
- Who's in the toilet?
- There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.
- There is a separate downstairs toilet.
- a room or small building containing several toilets, each in a separate smaller room
- public toilets
- toilet facilities
- Could you tell me where the ladies' toilet is, please?
- The toilets are located in the entrance area.
- a disabled toilet (= for disabled people)
- His new duties included cleaning the toilets.
- the process of washing and dressing yourself, arranging your hair, etc.
Word Origin- mid 16th cent.: from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’, diminutive of toile ‘cloth, web’, from Latin tela ‘web’. The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th cent.) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself (sense (4)). In the 19th cent. the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th cent.).
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