lavatory
lavatory
Definition
lava·tory (lav′ə tôr′ē)
noun pl. lavatories -·ries
- Now Rare a bowl or basin, esp. one with faucets and drainage, for washing the face and hands; washbowl
- a room equipped with a washbowl and flush toilet; toilet
- Chiefly Brit. a flush toilet
Etymology: LL lavatorium < L lavare, to wash: see lave
lavatory
Synonyms
lavatory
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- visit: Email NOW - CHANGE YOUR LIFE Remember MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Do you visit the lavatory more than once a night?
- use: The secret is: don't use the lavatory within 20 miles of a city.
- have: He said they had a tippler lavatory out in the yard.
Adjective modifier
- disused: PT gear to be stored in a cupboard in the disused lavatory at the entrance.
- outside: For instance, we will invest £ 30 million to ensure that within 12 months, no child has to use an outside lavatory.
- public: Everyone on the planet must have used a public lavatory at some point in their life.
- accessible: An accessible lavatory is available in the State Rooms.
- separate: A shower room and separate lavatory are on the first floor.
Modifies a noun
- cistern: There then follows the title sequence proper for The Filth, which features Inspector Drury collecting a bribe hidden in a lavatory cistern.
- attendant: His reply was: " I would have got the job of lavatory attendant; maybe today I would have been a superintendent.
- bowl: Visitors are told to never, ever put toilet paper down the lavatory bowl.
- pan: Marks have vanished in basins and lavatory pans and glasses dry without water marks.
- basin: Vomiting from the drugs, he had hit his head on the lavatory basin.
- seat: No detail is missed from towel warmer to white cotton robes to walnut lavatory seat.
Noun used with modifier
- downstairs: There is a large utility room housing the washing machine and drier, freezer, a second fridge, and a downstairs lavatory.
- lady: Baby changing may be done in the ladies lavatory.
lavatory Quotes
When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hung it in the men-servants' lavatory; it was her one combative action.
Browse dictionary entries near lavatory
- lavatories
- lavation
- lavallière
- lavaliere
- lavalier
- Laval
- lavage
- lavaboes
- lavabo dish (or basin or bowl)
- lavabo dish
- lave
- laved
- lavender
- lavender water
- laver
- laving
- Lavinia
- lavish
- lavishly
- lavishness
