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say it: bath
bath is a noun meaning "a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)". It is pronounced /ˈbæθ/ — bath. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)
“she soaked the etching in an acid bath”
a soaking and washing in a bathtub
“he has a good bath every morning”
an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bath come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.