a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath.
a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.
a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths.
a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.
Often baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla.
Usually baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa.
a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.
the container for such a preparation.
a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc.
Metallurgy.
the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.
the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat.
verb (used with or without object),bathed,bath·ing.Chiefly British.
to wash or soak in a bath.
Idioms
take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.
Origin of bath
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before 900;Middle English;Old Englishbæth; cognate with Old Frisianbeth,Old Saxon,Old Norsebath,GermanBad; < Germanic*bátha-n what is warmed, akin to Old High Germanbājan (Germanbähen), Swedishbasa to warm; pre-Germanic*bheH- to warm, past participle *bhH-to-
Related formsbath·less, adjective
bath
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[bath]
noun
a Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to a quantity varying between 10 and 11 U.S. gallons (38 and 42 liters).
a large container, esp one made of enamelled iron or plastic, used for washing or medically treating the bodyRelated adjective: balneal
the act or an instance of washing in such a container
the amount of liquid contained in a bath
run a bathto turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
(usually plural)a place that provides baths or a swimming pool for public use
a vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature, to process it photographically, electrolytically, etc, or to lubricate it
the liquid used in such a vessel
verb
Britishto wash in a bath
Word Origin for bath
Old English bæth; compare Old High German bad, Old Norse bath; related to Swedish basa to clean with warm water, Old High German bāen to warm
bath
2
noun
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about 8.3 Imperial gallons or 10 US gallons
Word Origin for bath
Hebrew
Bath
noun
a city in SW England, in Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the River Avon: famous for its hot springs; a fashionable spa in the 18th century; Roman remains, notably the baths; university (1966). Pop: 90 144 (2001)Latin name: Aquae Sulis (ˈækwiːˈsuːlɪs)
Old English bæð "immersing in water, mud, etc.," also "quantity of water, etc., for bathing," from Proto-Germanic *batham (cf. Old Norse bað, Middle Dutch bat, German bad), from PIE root *bhe- "to warm" (cf. Latin fovere "to foment") + Germanic *-thuz suffix indicating "act, process, condition" (cf. birth, death). Original sense was of heating, not immersing in water. The city in Somerset, England (Old English Baðun) was so called from its hot springs. Bath salts attested from 1875 (Dr. Julius Braun, "On the Curative Effects of Baths and Waters").
Baath
pan-Arab socialist party, founded by intellectuals in Syria in 1943, from Arabic ba't "resurrection, renaissance."
