bathroom

Example sentences

• "The bathroom is at the end of the hall."

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• "She brushes her teeth in the bathroom."

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• "Excuse me, where is the bathroom?"

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• "The new house has two bathrooms."

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Look-alikes and common mistakes

• toilet : A toilet is the fixture, and in British English it can be a room. Bathroom may include a bath and sink.
• restroom : Restroom is a polite American word for a public toilet. Bathroom is used at home.

Word family and forms

Forms: bathrooms

Word partners

Words and phrases that often go with "bathroom".

• a clean bathroom
• the bathroom sink
• a bathroom mirror
• go to the bathroom
• a bathroom scale
• an en-suite bathroom

Origin

Bathroom is made from bath plus room, and it is first recorded in English in the 1690s. A bathroom was first a room set apart for taking a bath.

Checked against: Wiktionary, the free dictionary, Dictionary.com.

How to remember it

Bathroom is bath plus room. It is the room with the bath.

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