{
    "term": "toilet",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ba/bathroom.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large bowl attached to a pipe that you sit on or stand over when you get rid of waste matter from your body",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Have you flushed the toilet?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I need to **go to the toilet** *(= use the toilet)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a toilet seat"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the toilet bowl"
                },
                {
                    "text": "toilet facilities"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you **need the toilet**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The girl asked if she could **use the toilet**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hotels usually have modern showers and toilets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He flushed the letter down the toilet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The caravan is equipped with a sink and a flush toilet."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["flush", "flushing", "portable"],
                "verb + toilet": ["go to", "use", "visit"],
                "toilet + noun": ["bowl", "seat", "paper"],
                "preposition": ["in the toilet", "on the toilet"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a room containing a toilet",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Every flat has its own bathroom and toilet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who's in the toilet?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a separate downstairs toilet."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["public", "communal", "shared"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a room or small building containing several toilets, each in a separate smaller room",
            "labels": "(British English)British EnglishNorth American EnglishNorth American English",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "public toilets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "toilet facilities"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Could you tell me where the ladies' toilet is, please?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The toilets are located in the entrance area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a disabled toilet *(= for disabled people)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His new duties included cleaning the toilets."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["public", "communal", "shared"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the process of washing and dressing yourself, arranging your hair, etc.",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtɔɪlət/",
                "audio": "to/toilet/toilet__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtɔɪlət/",
                "audio": "to/toilet/toilet__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’, diminutive of toile ‘cloth, web’, from Latin tela ‘web’. The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th cent.) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself (sense (4)). In the 19th cent. the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th cent.)."
}