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# bathroom

«bathroom» in Mova's school dictionary: **a room with a bath or shower, a washbasin and usually a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bathroom, bathrooms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bathroom is a room with a bath or shower, a washbasin and usually a toilet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#m1)

2) In the USA and Canada, «bathroom» is also the polite word for any toilet, even one with no bath: «May I go to the bathroom?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and hygiene lessons the bathroom is where you wash your hands, brush your teeth, bathe and use the toilet. In safety lessons bathrooms have dangers: wet floors are slippery, hot water can scald, medicines and cleaning products must be locked away, electric things must never be used near water, and small children must never be left alone in the bath. Phrases: go to the bathroom, bathroom cabinet, bathroom floor, en-suite bathroom.

### examples

- I brush my teeth in the bathroom every morning and night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x1)
- May I go to the bathroom, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x2)
- Wipe up water on the bathroom floor so nobody slips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x3)
- Medicines are kept in the bathroom cabinet out of reach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x4)
- Never use a hair dryer near a full bath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x5)
- Our house has one bathroom upstairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x6)
- Always wash your hands after going to the bathroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x7)
- Babies must never be left alone in the bathroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x8)
- He tried to stick it on with soap from the bathroom, but that also failed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/#x9)

### note

Countable: bathrooms. Different words: bathroom and restroom (USA, in public places), washroom (Canada), toilet or loo (UK, Ireland), toilet or dunny (Australia, informal). «Go to the bathroom» in American English means use the toilet. Bathroom is one word.

### In the corpora

- ["Bathroom" in American English means a toilet, even one with no bath in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/6/)
- [Wet bathroom floors are slippery, so you step out of the bath or shower carefully onto a bath mat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/7/)
- [Everyone also deserves privacy: their own room, their diary, their messages and their time in the bathroom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/2/)
- [Close the bathroom door, and expect others to knock, because toilet time is private.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/15/)
- [Little children should not lock the bathroom door, so that grown-ups can get in if they are ill or stuck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bathroom» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bathroom/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.