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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bathroom
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bathroom/hall/bedroom cupboardBritish English
▪ Your boots are in the hall cupboard.
bathroom suite
▪ a pink bathroom suite
bathroom/dining room/meeting room etc
▪ the doctor’s waiting room
the bathroom/kitchen/bedroom etc floor
▪ I’ve still got to clean the bathroom floor.
the kitchen/bedroom/bathroom etc door
▪ The kitchen door opened and Jake walked in.
the kitchen/dining/bedroom/bathroom area
▪ The kitchen area is rather small.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
en
▪ Back in the en suite bathroom, he briskly cleans his teeth and brushes his hair.
▪ The rooms are of a good standard, are spacious, and comfortably furnished, with en suite bathrooms.
▪ All bedrooms have full en suite bathrooms.
▪ Even the en suite bathroom of the bedroom she shared with Emily could be described by no other word than glorious!
▪ The en suite bathroom even had two white towelling bathrobes bearing Le Ponant's logo available for our use.
▪ Pink was also chosen for the main bedroom and its large en suite bathroom - once another bedroom.
▪ Her room was large and comfortable, with pale walls, light, modern furniture and an en suite bathroom.
▪ There are two comfortable bedrooms with en suite bathrooms.
private
▪ All bedrooms have a luxury you would expect - from colour television to sizeable private bathrooms.
▪ All staterooms are outside with large picture windows and private bathroom facilities.
▪ All bedrooms have a private bathroom and balcony.
▪ The two-story inn is a traditional adobe pueblo-style building with seven guest rooms with kiva fireplaces and private bathrooms.
▪ The bedrooms are comfortable and all have private bathroom, radio and telephone.
▪ Soldiers sleep four or six to a dormitory, with lockable doors and private bathrooms.
▪ The large bedrooms all have private bathroom, telephone, and are nicely decorated.
■ NOUN
door
▪ Paul sits on the floor by the bathroom door.
▪ While she starts the bath water I wheel my chair into the bedroom, just beside the bathroom door.
▪ The bathroom door was locked from the inside.
▪ After Smitty had gone out, Converse began to crawl to-ward the bathroom door.
▪ You're listening as you approach the bathroom door.
▪ The bathroom door opened and Renie hurried out, buckling his belt.
▪ He left the bathroom door open, which Folly hated.
▪ You saw the bathroom door, closed.
floor
▪ Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor.
▪ The square tiles on the bathroom floor were laid black next to white, like cards on a faro table.
▪ Slugs would drag along the bathroom floor, trailing their vestments of brown slime.
▪ When he came inside, he found his thirty-year-old wife dead on the bathroom floor.
▪ Mrs Popple lay on the bathroom floor, her jaw muscles having gone into spasms.
▪ Mr Popple had found her lying on the bathroom floor upon returning from the Lamb and Flag.
▪ Once more Kate hit the bathroom floor.
mirror
▪ Pinning up her wayward curls, Lissa made a face in the steam-coated bathroom mirror.
▪ In the bathroom mirror, he saw that his hair had been streaked white too.
▪ Barring the nightly message of encouragement captain Kardar stuck to his bathroom mirror, there were no instructions from the skipper.
▪ He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times, breathing deeply.
▪ Gerald stood and looked at himself in the bathroom mirror for several minutes.
▪ Lily looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.
▪ She is staring at her throat in the bathroom mirror.
▪ On the evidence of his bathroom mirror, he looked better too.
scale
▪ Like all bathroom scales, ours are trod with hope and trepidation.
▪ The bathroom scales are a shrine to which believers turn daily.
▪ I spend a lot of time on the bathroom scales - too much time - I really should throw them away!
▪ He steps on to the bathroom scales.
suite
▪ Back in the en suite bathroom, he briskly cleans his teeth and brushes his hair.
▪ The building comprises a row of seven double bedrooms with en-#suite bathrooms, plus a staff bed-sitter.
▪ The rooms are of a good standard, are spacious, and comfortably furnished, with en suite bathrooms.
▪ All bedrooms have full en suite bathrooms.
▪ Even the en suite bathroom of the bedroom she shared with Emily could be described by no other word than glorious!
▪ The en suite bathroom even had two white towelling bathrobes bearing Le Ponant's logo available for our use.
▪ Pink was also chosen for the main bedroom and its large en suite bathroom - once another bedroom.
▪ Her room was large and comfortable, with pale walls, light, modern furniture and an en suite bathroom.
window
▪ Nothing was stolen from the bungalow in Morton-on-Swale, near Northallerton, but £30 damage was caused to the bathroom window.
▪ Another bullet penetrated the bathroom window of another house in the same area.
▪ The bathroom window was boarded up.
■ VERB
go
▪ Then he went to the bathroom.
▪ He got up and went to the bathroom, took a shower.
▪ Eva goes immediately into the bathroom.
▪ And beat me for going to the bathroom at night too many times.
▪ She went through to the bathroom and ran water into the tub.
▪ We look around carefully before going to use the bathrooms.
▪ I went to the bathroom and scrubbed myself until I was raw.
▪ Clarisa went into the bathroom and locked the door.
leave
▪ He left the bathroom door open, which Folly hated.
▪ He left the bathroom and I stood looking at myself. fool! ness stand.
▪ Wrapped in a big green towel, Tabitha left the bathroom.
▪ He left her in the bathroom and closed the door.
▪ But before Anne left the bathroom, she took one last look at herself in the mirror.
▪ I left the bathroom door open and went to the master bedroom, where I spent a moment or two.
▪ The music came from next door and when he left the bathroom and turned into the sitting room he felt dizzy.
▪ What's that little rule about always leaving the bathroom as you'd expect to find it?
lock
▪ Even so, I locked myself in the bathroom where I could read the story slowly and without fear of interruption.
▪ The young man who died mysteriously in a locked bathroom.
▪ They put pins in their chairs, threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom.
▪ The ones on the outer door I can understand, but why lock up the bathroom?
▪ I lock myself in the bathroom.
▪ Con: When you want privacy, you may be forced to lock yourself in the bathroom.
run
▪ But water ran cold in the bathroom basin.
▪ Petey had run crying into the bathroom where Carol found him and put him in her lap.
▪ But he went upstairs and I heard water running in the bathroom.
▪ I run into the bathroom and floss deodorize brush spray the works the usual.
▪ She ran upstairs to the bathroom, covered her head with a towel and spoke to the cold white wall.
▪ He hurried through the warehouse to avoid Astrid, who must have run into the bathroom.
▪ Benjy opened the door at the end of the counter and ran into the bathroom.
▪ The water is running in the bathroom.
share
▪ Many bedrooms have ensuite shower or bath/wc or two rooms share a bathroom.
▪ For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.
▪ Suites of either two twins sharing a bathroom or one twin, one single sharing a bathroom are available.
▪ Patients have to obey a strict regime and Carre is forced to share a room and bathroom with another addict.
▪ At Wolf Ridge, you live in dorms and share a bathroom with a number of other people.
▪ We shared the toilets, bathroom, living room and kitchen.
▪ Guests in some of the less expensive rooms share a bathroom.
turn
▪ Pamela got up to take her morning shower, went into the bathroom, and turned on the faucets.
use
▪ He couldn't use the bathroom as an excuse this time.
▪ That night I woke up past mid-night and had to use the bathroom.
▪ My aching back woke me around 7.30, but that gave me plenty of time to use the communal bathroom and kitchen.
▪ We look around carefully before going to use the bathrooms.
▪ Miss Cress had left, smiling, had not committed herself, nor had she asked to use the bathroom.
▪ Norm needed to use the bathroom.
▪ She hoped Miss Cress would ask to use the bathroom.
▪ Wash your hands after using the bathroom, before beginning food preparation and after working with raw meat or poultry.
walk
▪ She walked into the bathroom and Rachaela heard the clink of the pot of cold cream.
▪ She got up and walked off into the bathroom.
▪ Naked, she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years.
▪ He felt his lip, spat blood, and walked into the bathroom.
▪ Ablaze with fiery emotions, Meredith walked self-consciously to the bathroom under Lucenzo's critical eyes.
▪ Hicks walked out of the bathroom.
▪ I walked into the bathroom and by then labour had started.
▪ As he walked out of the bathroom, he looked at his secretary for the first time that morning.
wash
▪ She could hear him thumping around in the bathroom, washing before dinner.
▪ In the bathroom, I washed myself.
▪ He got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face.
▪ In the office, he went directly to the minuscule bathroom and washed his face and hands.
▪ She went to the bathroom and washed her face in cold water.
▪ He puts the manuscript down on the table, goes into the bathroom, and washes the blood off his hands.
▪ Irina had dashed into the bathroom and was washing her hair with shaving-cream.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bathroom/toilet/shower stall
▪ He asked for the shampoo in the shower stall and she handed it to him.
▪ The urinals were metal, and in a distant area of shadows there appeared to be shower stalls.
▪ Think about it, really, would you trust somebody who promotes their self in a bathroom stall?
▪ Tillman worked her hard all day made her change sheets, scour shower stalls.
▪ We got a hotel room that featured peeling paint, no windows, and a john in the shower stall.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Can I use your bathroom?" "Sure, go ahead."
▪ Excuse me, where's the bathroom?
▪ The bathroom is next to Jack's room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And I can take it into the bathroom to read.
▪ Cyril emerged from the bathroom, holding out a pack of Kools.
▪ During the night I wake to dash the two yards from bunk to bathroom.
▪ He found the first corroboration of his suspicions in the small white-tiled bathroom beyond the bedroom.
▪ If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin, Nick would have a fit.
▪ The door facing the entrance turned out to be a bathroom.
▪ The trailers do not have sewer connections and residents are supposed to use resort or park bathrooms.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bathroom

Lavatory \Lav"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. Lavatories. [L. lavatorium: cf. lavatoire. See Lave to wash, and cf. Laver.]

  1. A place for washing.

  2. A basin or other vessel for washing in.

  3. A wash or lotion for a diseased part.

  4. A place where gold is obtained by washing.

  5. A room containing one or more sinks for washing, as well as one or more toilet fixtures; also called bathroom, toilet, and sometimes commode. Commode and toilet may refer to a room with only a toilet fixture, but without a sink.

    Syn: toilet, lavatory, can, facility, john, privy, bathroom.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bathroom

1780, from bath + room (n.). Originally a room with apparatus for bathing, used 20c. in U.S. as a euphemism for a lavatory and often noted as a word that confused British travelers. To go to the bathroom, euphemism for "relieve oneself; urinate, defecate," from 1920 (in a book for children), but typically used without regard for whether an actual bathroom is involved.

Wiktionary
bathroom

n. 1 A room containing a bath where one can bathe. 2 (context chiefly North America English) A room containing a toilet.

WordNet
bathroom
  1. n. a room (as in a residence) containing a bath or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet [syn: bath]

  2. a room equipped with toilet facilities [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy]

Wikipedia
Bathroom

A bathroom is a room for personal hygiene activities, generally containing at minimum a toilet and sink. A bathroom may also contain a mirror, a bathtub or a shower, and possibly also a bidet. In North America and some other regions, it characteristically contains at least a toilet and a sink; hence in North American English the word "bathroom" is commonly used to mean any room containing a toilet, even a public toilet (although in the United States this is more commonly called a restroom). In other countries, including the UK, Australia, France, eastern Europe and Japan, homes may have a separate toilet room. In Iran almost all homes have two distinct rooms for the bathroom and the toilet room. Bathrooms often have one or more towel bars or towel rings for hanging towels. Some bathrooms contain a medicine cabinet for personal hygiene products and medicines and drawers or shelves for storing towels and other items. All forms of bathroom lighting should be IP44 rated as safe to use in the bathroom.

Usage examples of "bathroom".

He went to the bathroom to wash his hands, but this time he did not ask the mirror, metaphysically, What can this be, he had recovered his scientific outlook, the fact that agnosia and amaurosis are identified and defined with great precision in books and in practice, did not preclude the appearance of variations, mutations, if the word is appropriate, and that day seemed to have arrived.

From the corner of my sight I watched Nick leave the bathroom, looking like the ailing vampire who was sitting beside me, trying to attract anyone in an apron.

I might have stayed like that or even retreated into the hall in confusion if Amrita had not emerged from the bathroom at that moment.

Just as I figured out that it was the telephone making the noise, Amrita came in from the bathroom and answered it.

Ravenclaw, Harry found himself walking down to dinner alone from the common room, Ron having rushed off into a nearby bathroom to throw up yet again, and Hermione having dashed off to see Professor Vector about a mistake she thought she might have made in her last Arithmancy essay.

A few days before the match against Ravenclaw, Harry found himself walking down to dinner alone from the common room, Ron having rushed off into a nearby bathroom to throw up yet again, and Hermione having dashed off to see Professor Vector about a mistake she thought she might have made in her last Arithmancy essay.

The bathroom floor was littered with shards of shattered ashet and the walls were awash with grease from the exploded goose.

They were all standing outside the bathroom again, and Bagman and Fudge started hustling the Ministers away.

At that moment she came out of the bathroom and he took her place at the bidet, only to hear his phone ringing.

Europe is the bidet, which is a bathroom appliance, usually located next to the toilet, that looks like a urinal lying on its back.

As he emerged on to the landing, however, he was just in time to see Eleanor Bing appear from the landing above, carrying a bathroom stool.

By the time they got to their table Bling and the writer had cooked up a number of alternative meets where they might make their pitch to the boy in private -- Bling would follow him to the bathroom.

The bathroom, added to the house in the 1920s, had some insulation, which Cig and Blackie had augmented in the 1980s.

There are books on the shelves, cans of beer and Cokes in the refrigerator, and a manually operated light bulb in the bathroom.

I thought of Phil Dobe, out of sight in the bathroom, thought of the man I knew as Quirt, on his way over to the William Penn.