gents'

American  

[jents] / dʒɛnts /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. Informal. the gents, a men's room.

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gents British  

/ dʒɛnts /

noun

1. informal (functioning as singular) a men's public lavatory

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Etymology

Origin of gents'

First recorded in 1920–25; gent ¹, -s ³

Example Sentences

Her office is below the Speaker's House where she says the "gents' toilets" are "regularly exploding with sewage".

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

The gents' at South End Green near Hampstead Heath - a listed building - is a Victorian underground lavatory block that has been lavishly restored to its former glory.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2022

I first interviewed Andrew Bacevich, the soldier turned scholar, after he spoke at the Hope Club, an old-line gents’ establishment in Providence, Rhode Island.

From Salon • May 15, 2016

Although, admittedly, where I am standing is just by the gents' toilets in a succession of the hippest venues in western Europe.

From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2013

“Oh, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That is just what there isn’t. He must have stepped into the gents’ room.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin