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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
washroom
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I went down to the washroom to get a drink of water, and to have a shave.
▪ I would remember if I had looked for washrooms or wells or pitchers of water.
▪ Mitchell trudged down the hall toward his corner office, detouring into the washroom to assess the damage to his hair.
▪ P.S. My substitute for Woozle is a salamander in the washroom.
▪ She would hear tile swirl of water from the downstairs washroom, his footsteps on the tessellated floor of the hall.
▪ The museum is a locked door in the town hall, down the hall and to the left by the washroom.
▪ This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly.
▪ When the house was quiet, I stole down to the washroom and then went back upstairs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
washroom

1806, from wash + room (n.).

Wiktionary
washroom

n. (context US Canada English) A toilet, especially a public one.

WordNet
washroom

n. especially a lavatory in a public place

Usage examples of "washroom".

In the washroom another deracinating spectacle: marks and pfennigsgood tenderstuck to the wall with human ordure.

In a catacomb bored from stone ran tunnels and passageways and balconies filled with smoky taverns, shops, a smith, a washroom with hot and cold water, niches with beds, and a common room where three dozen roisterers cheered a wrestling match among two women and a man.

Gerard reading invoices with concentration and went through into the next room which was furnished with an expensive leather-topped desk, green leather armchairs, carpet, brass pot with six foot high evergreen, cocktail cabinet, framed drawings of Bernard Naylor and his bottling plant fifty years earlier and a door into a luxurious washroom.

Saber tried to find him some privacy, but the only accessible sections on the microbus were the galley and the washroom.

Afterward, Mariella throws up in a washroom, and then has to wait interminably while Penn Brown takes his turn.

After Poly had been gone a couple of minutes he began to look back toward the washroom door every few seconds.

Adam remembered, unwillingly, the empty washroom on the plane, and thought of Poly drugged, gagged, dumped roughly onto a pile of luggage.

Harry came through into the washroom with the electric shaver Dillon had done a lightning change into a clean white shirt, black tie and neatly pressed grey trousers.

It was not fear of punishment, but of the talk itself, of something uncontrollable, the small random thing unplanned for in the tight fabric of prison life, flowering in the unregimented moment, in a free exchange of eyes, in the whispers passed in the washroom.

He placed it in his briefcase, then headed directly for the washroom where he lathered his hands with antibacterial soap brought from home.

The room beyond was a washroom converted to a darkroom, its single window made lightproof with a thick coat of black paint.

John walks over to the modern, mirror-walled washroom area, where on the wall above the imitation-marble counter sit a small electric glass teapot and complimentary individual servings of prepackaged tea mix provided by the trackside motel.

Three elderly women were sitting on the front porch, one in a wheelchair, furtively smoking, like naughty adolescents in the washroom.

As the images played on, Lurt left the chamber, ostensibly heading for the washroom.

He showed everyone where the galley and washrooms were located, and which buttons to punch if they needed help.