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restroom
noun
rest·room
ˈrest-ˌrüm
-ˌru̇m
US
: a room or suite of rooms in a public space providing toilets and lavatories : a public bathroom
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Examples of restroom in a Sentence
I wasn't feeling well and had to make a number of trips to the restroom.
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Unlike many professional sports stadiums that pipe audio of the game broadcast into restroom speakers, Intuit Dome, the brand-new home of the Los Angeles Clippers, plays a different soundtrack for fans using its more than 1,100 touchless toilets and urinals: pop music.
—Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
The park also operates several warming huts, which feature restrooms and may even have light snacks.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2024
Along with the restrooms, the back room of the store was quarantined off, Niemi said.
—Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
For a candidate whose anti-trans rhetoric includes saying transgender women should be arrested for using women’s restrooms, this was shocking news.
—Dorian Rhea Debussy, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1899, in the meaning defined above
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“Restroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restroom. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
restroom
noun
rest·room
ˈrest-ˌrüm
-ˌru̇m
: a room or set of rooms that includes sinks and toilets
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