Thesaurus:bathroom
English
Synonyms
- bathroom (US)
- bog (vulgar slang, UK)
- bogger (slang, AU)
- brasco (slang, AU)
- can (slang, US)
- carsey (slang, UK)
- cloaca (obsolete)
- closet (obsolete)
- closet of ease (obsolete)
- cludgie (Scots)
- cottage (UK gay, slang)
- crapper (vulgar slang)
- dike (AU&NZ, slang)
- dunny (slang, AU&NZ)
- geography (slang, UK)
- House of Lords (dated jocular slang, UK)
- jacks (slang, Irish)
- jacques (obsolete)
- jakes (Irish)
- john (slang, US)
- karzy (slang, UK)
- khazi (slang, UK)
- kocay (obsolete)
- ladies and gentlemen (rare)
- lats (UK, slang)
- lav (UK, slang)
- lavabo (jocular slang)
- lavvy (slang, UK)
- loo (slang, UK)
- necessary place (obsolete)
- neddy (Georgie, obsolete)
- netty (Georgie)
- potty (childish)
- privy (dated)
- purging place (obsolete)
- shitter (vulgar slang)
- teahouse (US gay, slang, dated)
- tearoom (US gay, slang, dated)
- toilet room (dated)
- throne-room (jocular slang)
- urination station (slang)
- usual offices (UK)
- vault (obsolete)
- washroom (US, Canada)
- water closet (UK)
- WC (UK)
- withdraught (obsolete)
Hyponyms
- A public bathroom reserved for use by men
- cloakroom (UK)
- Gentlemen's (dated)
- gentlemen's (dated)
- gentlemen's room (dated)
- gents (UK)
- gents' (uncommon)
- little boys room (childish)
- little boy's room (nonstandard, childish)
- little boys' room (childish)
- man's room (nonstandard)
- A public bathroom reserved for use by women
- ladies (UK)
- ladies' cloakroom (obsolete)
- little girls room (childish)
- little girl's room (nonstandard, childish)
- little girls' room (childish)
- woman's room (nonstandard)
- women's room (US)
- A permanent outer building used as a bathroom
- A secondary bathroom containing only a toilet and sink
- A temporary structure used as a bathroom
- johnny house (slang, US)
- port-a-john (US)
- porta-kybo
- portaloo (UK)
- port-a-san
- port-o-john (US)
- sani-privy
- turdis (UK)
- Other
- chemical closet
- comfort room (Philippines)
- comfort station (US)
- convenience (UK)
- CR (Philippines)
- dike (AU&NZ, slang)
- full bath (US)
- full bathroom (US)
- gongpit (obsolete)
- public convenience (UK)
- three-quarter bath (US)
- trap (slang)
- urinal (obsolete)
Hypernyms
Holonyms
Notes
Although British English also uses the term bathroom to refer euphemistically to a place to urinate and defecate, it uses it much less often than American English in reference to public toilets.
See also
Further reading
- “191. receptacle” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “bathroom” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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