water closet

See also: water-closet

English

Alternative forms

• WC (initialism)
• water-closet, watercloset

Pronunciation

• Audio (Northwestern US):

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Noun

water closet (plural water closets)

1. (chiefly Europe) A room containing a flush toilet.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

2. (UK) A flush toilet itself.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:toilet

   Coordinate term: earth closet

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water,‎ closet.

Derived terms

• (as a lavatory): closet
• WC

Descendants

• → French: water-closet

Translations

room with a toilet — see also toilet

• Spanish: water closet m, wáter-closet m, water (es) m, wáter m, váter (es) m, ^{(please verify)} watercló m (Latin America, informal)

toilet — see also toilet

• Spanish: water closet m, wáter-closet m, water (es) m, wáter m, váter (es) m

Further reading

• flush toilet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Alternative forms

• wáter-closet

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English water closet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌw̝ateɾ ˈkloset/ [ˌw̝a.t̪eɾ ˈklo.set̪]
• Syllabification: wa‧ter clo‧set

Noun

water closet m (plural water closets)

1. water closet

   Synonyms: water, wáter, váter

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “water closet”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA