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How to pronounce “lavatory”
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Pronunciation guide for lavatory
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of lavatory with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex 18 minutes
one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory
- Definition summary
- A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly:
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce lavatory
Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex 18 minutes
one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “lavatory”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly:
- Handwashing as an act, particularly
- (obsolete) A liquid used in washing; a lotion; a wash; a rinse.
- (dated) A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands.
- (euphemistic) A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
- (UK, New England) A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
- (dated) A place to wash clothes: a laundry.
- (obsolete) A place where gold is panned.
- (obsolete) A paved room in a mortuary where corpses are kept under a shower of disinfecting fluid.
- [Adjective]
- (dated) Washing, or cleansing by washing.
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