bath
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: bäth, IPA(key): /bɑːθ/
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- enPR: băth, IPA(key): /bæθ/
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːθ, -æθ
Etymology 1
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From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Dutch bad (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”), Danish bad (“bath”), Icelandic bað (“bath”), Swedish bad (“bath”), German bähen (“to foment”). More at beath.
Noun
bath (plural baths)
- A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
- A building or area where bathing occurs.
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- Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
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- (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
- The master bath has two sinks.
- The act of bathing.
- A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
- a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
- 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
- He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
Usage notes
Sense 4. is usually to take (US) or have (UK, Aus) a bath. See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
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Verb
bath (third-person singular simple present baths, present participle bathing, simple past and past participle bathed)
- (transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath
- 1990, Mukti Jain Campion, The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability.[1], →ISBN, page 41:
- Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.
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Etymology 2
Noun
bath (plural baths)
Meronyms
- (liquid volume): log (1⁄72 bath); cab, kab (1⁄18 bath); hin (1⁄6 bath); cor, kor, homer, chomer (10 baths)
References
- "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From English proper noun Bath where this paper was originally made.
Pronunciation
Noun
bath m (plural baths)
Adjective
bath (plural baths)
Further reading
- “bath”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bā þā.
Determiner
bath
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Conjunction
bath
- Alternative form of bothe (“both”)
Etymology 2
From Old English bæþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
- A bath or pool, especially one by a hot spring; a body of liquid one immerses oneself in.
- A bath supposedly having curative or healing properties.
- A bath supposedly having spiritual properties.
- (alchemy) A bath used to produce distilled water.
- The process of having a bath; a bathing.
- A medicinal bathing; bathing as a treatment.
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Descendants
References
- “bath (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.
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