toilet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of dressing and preparing yourself

   I made my morning toilet and went to breakfast.

2. 2
   noun

   A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.

   Sorry, I was in the toilet.

3. 3
   noun

   A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.

   My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.

4. 4
   noun

   A very shabby or dirty place.

   Look around you. It's a toilet.

5. 5
   noun

   The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.

   And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, / Each silver vase in mystic order laid.

6. 6
   noun

   Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.

   Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].

7. 7
   noun

   One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.

   It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

8. 8
   noun

   A woman.

   I’m not interested in toilets and I don’t think a gf [Girlfriend] is needed to live a fulfilling life.

Etymology

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.