Definition of Toilet bowl

1. Noun. The bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water.

Generic synonyms: Bowl
Group relationships: Can, Commode, Crapper, Pot, Potty, Stool, Throne, Toilet

Definition of Toilet bowl

1. Noun. Receptacle designed to receive the dejections of humans. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toilet Bowl

toiler
toilers
toiles
toilet
toilet-paper
toilet-papered
toilet-papering
toilet-papers
toilet-roll
toilet-train
toilet-trained
toilet article
toilet babies
toilet baby
toilet bag
toilet bowl (current term)
toilet bowls
toilet brush
toilet brushes
toilet facilities
toilet facility
toilet humour
toilet jack
toilet kit
toilet papered
toilet papering
toilet papers
toilet powder
toilet roll

Literary usage of Toilet bowl

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties by Charles Frederick Weller, Eugenia Winston Weller (1909)
"The latter is notable because the only water supply of the dwelling must be drawn from a faucet which stands directly above the toilet bowl and is ..."

2. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"Where bed-pans or urinals are used and then emptied into such a toilet- bowl, disinfection should be done of the hands of the attendant who empties the pan, ..."

3. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"He sat there, riding a white china toilet bowl, beseeching the Almighty for a print. Two young white men sat in a mansion in Harlem staring at a middle-aged ..."

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