toilet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A bowl with a seat, connected to water pipes, used for getting rid of bodily waste.

   The toilet got clogged and the bathroom flooded.

2. 2
   noun

   A room containing such a fixture; a bathroom.

   Sorry I'm late, I was in the toilet.

From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.

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