Lavatory
noun
A room or enclosed area having a toilet and sink for washing hands and face.
The airplane has a small lavatory at the back.
Often appears as...
- public lavatory
- airplane lavatory
noun
A sink or basin for washing face and hands.
She quickly washed her hands in the lavatory.
Often appears as...
- bathroom lavatory
- granite lavatory
noun
A room or enclosed area having a toilet and sink for washing hands and face.
The airplane has a small lavatory at the back.
Often appears as...
- public lavatory
- airplane lavatory
noun
A sink or basin for washing face and hands.
She quickly washed her hands in the lavatory.
Often appears as...
- bathroom lavatory
- granite lavatory
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Public Etiquette
Used for public or shared toilets, 'lavatory' indicates a place of privacy and hygiene.
Please clean up after using the public lavatory.
Pro Tip 2/3Air Travel
'Lavatory' is common in air travel to refer to the toilet compartment in an aircraft.
The seatbelt sign is off, so you may now use the lavatory if needed.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Preference
In formal or polite contexts, 'lavatory' is preferred over 'toilet', which can be considered blunt.
Excuse me, where is the lavatory?
Pro Tip 1/3Public Etiquette
Used for public or shared toilets, 'lavatory' indicates a place of privacy and hygiene.
Please clean up after using the public lavatory.
Pro Tip 2/3Air Travel
'Lavatory' is common in air travel to refer to the toilet compartment in an aircraft.
The seatbelt sign is off, so you may now use the lavatory if needed.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Preference
In formal or polite contexts, 'lavatory' is preferred over 'toilet', which can be considered blunt.
Excuse me, where is the lavatory?
Pro Tip 1/3Public Etiquette
Used for public or shared toilets, 'lavatory' indicates a place of privacy and hygiene.
Please clean up after using the public lavatory.
Pro Tip 2/3Air Travel
'Lavatory' is common in air travel to refer to the toilet compartment in an aircraft.
The seatbelt sign is off, so you may now use the lavatory if needed.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Preference
In formal or polite contexts, 'lavatory' is preferred over 'toilet', which can be considered blunt.
Excuse me, where is the lavatory?
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Video examples
My seven species of...
welcome to Ramallah the ROI some mechanisms lavatory at Virginia Tech this robot is a ameba robot now we don't have enough time to go into technical details I'll just show you some of the experiments so this is all over the early feasibility experience we store potential energy to the elastic skin to
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Tim Harford: Trial,...
The German camp guards, they've got bored. They've taken to just firing into the prison camp at random for fun. On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners. He said he heard suspicious laughter.
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Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
fishnets without laddering them I learned how to dodge bullets and I learned how to look nonchalant after flushing a quantity of cocaine down a public lavatory but one of the most important things that I learned was how
Video examples
My seven species of...
welcome to Ramallah the ROI some mechanisms lavatory at Virginia Tech this robot is a ameba robot now we don't have enough time to go into technical details I'll just show you some of the experiments so this is all over the early feasibility experience we store potential energy to the elastic skin to
Video examples
Tim Harford: Trial,...
The German camp guards, they've got bored. They've taken to just firing into the prison camp at random for fun. On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners. He said he heard suspicious laughter.
Video examples
Emily Ainsworth: Inside...
fishnets without laddering them I learned how to dodge bullets and I learned how to look nonchalant after flushing a quantity of cocaine down a public lavatory but one of the most important things that I learned was how
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Quote examples
Olivia Colman
English Actress
I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.
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Joanna Lumley
English Actress
In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.
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Mal Peet
English Author
I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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Kate Adie
British Journalist
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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John Waters
Director
I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in the airplane in the lavatory to take out the smoke detector. I would've been those people they warn you against.
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Haile Gebrselassie
Athlete
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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Nancy Banks Smith
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
The Internet is a global lavatory wall, a Rabelaisian mixture of truth, lies, insanity and humour.
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A. C. Benson
British Author
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Tom Baker
Actor
It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.
Quote examples
Olivia Colman
English Actress
I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.
Quote examples
Joanna Lumley
English Actress
In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.
Quote examples
Mal Peet
English Author
I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
Quote examples
Kate Adie
British Journalist
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Quote examples
John Waters
Director
I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in the airplane in the lavatory to take out the smoke detector. I would've been those people they warn you against.
Quote examples
Haile Gebrselassie
Athlete
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
Quote examples
Nancy Banks Smith
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Quote examples
Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
The Internet is a global lavatory wall, a Rabelaisian mixture of truth, lies, insanity and humour.
Quote examples
A. C. Benson
British Author
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Quote examples
Tom Baker
Actor
It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.
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