water closet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    * 1.3.1 Derived terms
    * 1.3.2 Descendants
    * 1.3.3 Translations
  • 1.4 Further reading
• 2 Spanish
  • 2.1 Alternative forms
  • 2.2 Etymology
  • 2.3 Pronunciation
  • 2.4 Noun
    * 2.4.1 Usage notes
  • 2.5 Further reading

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• WC (initialism)
• water-closet, watercloset

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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.

• (as a lavatory): closet
• WC
• → French: water-closet
• flush toilet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• wáter-closet

Unadapted borrowing from English water closet.

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

water closet m (plural water closets)

1. water closet
   Synonyms: water, wáter, váter

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.

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

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