ladies' room

1. 1.

   a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building

   Synonymspowder room

   Broaderpublic toilet

Questions about ladies' room

What does ladies' room mean?

ladies' room means "a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building".

What is another word for ladies' room?

Close synonyms include powder room. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ladies' room a common word?

ladies' room is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.