restroom

or rest room

[ rest- room, room ]
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noun
  1. rooms or a room having a sink, toilet, and other facilities for use by employees, visitors, etc., as in a store, theater, or office.

Origin of restroom

1
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

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How to use restroom in a sentence

  • But the real rest-room is the library, furnished with plenty of lounges and large easy-chairs.

    Ways of War and Peace | Delia Austrian
  • There is also a rest room at the ice cream parlor and back of the church there is another hall.

    The American Country Girl | Martha Foote Crow
  • He finally sauntered into the rest room where he found O'Malley shooting the breeze with a group of fliers.

  • Did you go to the rest room at all before you went back up to the sixth floor?

    Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • Five of us gathered late in the afternoon of an August day in the cool matted rest-room in the garden.

    The Foundations of Japan | J.W. Robertson Scott

British Dictionary definitions for rest room

rest room

noun
  1. a room in a public building having lavatories, washing facilities, and sometimes couches

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