wash-hand basin

1. 1.

   a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression)

   Synonymswashbasinhandbasinwashbowllavabo

   Broaderbasin

   Part ofbathroom

   United Kingdom

Questions about wash-hand basin

What does wash-hand basin mean?

wash-hand basin means "a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression)".

What is another word for wash-hand basin?

Close synonyms include washbasin, handbasin, washbowl, lavabo. 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 wash-hand basin a common word?

wash-hand basin 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.