public toilet

Questions about public toilet

What does public toilet mean?

public toilet means "a toilet that is available to the public".

What is another word for public toilet?

Close synonyms include comfort station, public convenience, convenience, public lavatory, restroom. 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 public toilet a common word?

public toilet 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.