as in bathrooms
a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste
we were directed to the toilets in the church basement
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as in clothes
to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes
the princess required at least a dozen maids to toilet her for formal occasions
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Recent Examples of toilets
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time.
—Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
Campsites At Wind Cave, Elk Mountain Campground offers more than 60 primitive sites (flush toilets and drinking water are available May through September).
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026
The dressing rooms, as cramped as that area can get under the main stand, would also have passed the 30-square-metre minimum requirement, plus the necessary six showers and four toilets.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Public toilets stopped working, paralyzed without bank payments by mobile internet.
—Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 13 May 2026
Other amenities include flushing toilets and hot showers, an RV dumping station, a playground, and basketball and volleyball courts.
—Anna Laird Barto, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
Other detainees have said worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.
—Mike Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Those toilets still cost you the same amount of money.
—Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 11 May 2026
Noun
Bathrooms are fashioned with rain showers; thick, white waffle-like terry cloth robes; soaking tubs equipped with bath salts by Lather; ultra-speedy Dyson supersonic hair dryers; and high-tech, motion sensor Toto toilets that illuminate, open, and oscillate seemingly like magic.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time.
—Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
Campsites At Wind Cave, Elk Mountain Campground offers more than 60 primitive sites (flush toilets and drinking water are available May through September).
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 May 2026
The dressing rooms, as cramped as that area can get under the main stand, would also have passed the 30-square-metre minimum requirement, plus the necessary six showers and four toilets.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Public toilets stopped working, paralyzed without bank payments by mobile internet.
—Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 13 May 2026
Other amenities include flushing toilets and hot showers, an RV dumping station, a playground, and basketball and volleyball courts.
—Anna Laird Barto, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
Other detainees have said worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.
—Mike Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
Those toilets still cost you the same amount of money.
—Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toilets
Noun
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Even the most basic categories include a proper work setup, seating area, and oversized marble bathrooms.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 May 2026
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This single-story house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
20 May 2026
Noun
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The hotel and its accommodations have been designed with accessibility in mind, including elevators, entrances, parking, restrooms, hotel rooms, and routes to and from all restaurants, meeting, and entertainment spaces.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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Stretching from Choctawhatchee Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, Santa Rosa Beach offers easy public beach access points with parking, restrooms, and seasonal lifeguards.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
16 May 2026
Verb
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Alix Earle dresses in a red mini dress for NYLON's Miami Race Week residency at Miami Grand Prix 2026, presented by Mini USA, on April 29.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
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Men in jackets and pressed slacks drift through the hallways with equally elegant ladies on their arms; when dinner time arrives, everyone dresses for the occasion, as did the generations of guests before them.—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The same girls who’d posted winking pop-culture-reference couples Halloween costumes a few years ago were now posting their toddlers in their own pop-culture-reference costumes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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To make that medicine go down easier, RAYE costumes her fatalism in a baroque maximalism.—
Boutayna Chokrane,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Toilets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toilets. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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