towel bar

1. 1.

   a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels

   Synonymstowel rail

   Broaderbar

Questions about towel bar

What does towel bar mean?

towel bar means "a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels".

What is another word for towel bar?

Close synonyms include towel rail. 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 towel bar a common word?

towel bar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.