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say it: TOY-luht
toilet is a noun meaning "a room or building equipped with one or more toilets". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
“his career was in the gutter”
“all that work went down the sewer”
“pensions are in the toilet”
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 toilet 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.