toilet paper

1. 1.

   a soft thin absorbent paper for use in toilets

   Synonymstoilet tissuebathroom tissue

   Broadertissue

   Narrowertoilet roll

Questions about toilet paper

What does toilet paper mean?

toilet paper means "a soft thin absorbent paper for use in toilets".

What is another word for toilet paper?

Close synonyms include toilet tissue, bathroom tissue. 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 toilet paper a common word?

toilet paper 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.