bathroom

• bath room, bath-room

From bath +‎ room. Compare Dutch badkamer (“bathroom”), German Badezimmer (“bathroom”), Swedish badrum (“bathroom”), Faroese baðrúm (“bathroom”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːθɹʊm/, /ˈbɑːθɹuːm/

• Audio (UK):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbæθˌɹum/, /ˈbæθɹʊm/

• Audio (US):

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• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæθɹʊm/, /ˈbæθɹuːm/
• Rhymes: -ʊm, -uːm

bathroom (plural bathrooms)

1. A room containing a shower or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

   Hypernym: room

   • 1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon:

     “down this ‘ere little stair–mind your ‘ead, mum–everythink is modern, put in by Mr. Noakes w’en ‘e took to lettin’ for the summer.”
     ”A bathroom?” asked Harriet hopefully.
     ”Well, no, m’lady, not a bathroom,” replied Mrs. Ruddle, as though that were too much to expect, “but everythink else is quite modern as you’ll find–only requirin’ to be pumped up night and morning in the scullery.”

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I wash in the bathroom.

2. (chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, Philippines, Australia, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.

   Most Americans don't know 'WC' and many Brits mock 'bathroom' but almost everyone understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.

• From the beginning of the 20th century, bathroom has been the generic word for a room with toilet facilities in American English,^[1] whereas Britons have continued to say lavatory relatively more frequently, and often loo or WC for a room with a toilet but no bath. In some contexts, bathroom refers more particularly to the toilet facilities of a private residence, distinguished from public buildings' restrooms (US), washrooms (Canada), men's rooms, ladies' rooms, etc.

• → Hindi: बाथरूम (bāthrūm)
• → Urdu: باتھ روم (bāth-rūm)

bathroom (third-person singular simple present bathrooms, present participle bathrooming, simple past and past participle bathroomed)

1. (medicine, transitive) To assist a patient with using the toilet and general personal hygiene.

• Robotham, Bohr atom