sanitary towel

1. 1.

   a disposable absorbent pad (trade name Kotex); worn to absorb menstrual flow

   Synonymssanitary napkinKotex

   Broaderpad

   trade name · United Kingdom

Questions about sanitary towel

What does sanitary towel mean?

sanitary towel means "a disposable absorbent pad (trade name Kotex); worn to absorb menstrual flow".

What is another word for sanitary towel?

Close synonyms include sanitary napkin, Kotex. 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 sanitary towel a common word?

sanitary towel 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.