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- [bath, bahth]
- /bæθ, bɑθ/
- /bɑːθ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bath, bahth]
- /bæθ, bɑθ/
Definitions of bath word
- countable noun bath A bath is a container, usually a long rectangular one, which you fill with water and sit in while you wash your body. 3
- countable noun bath When you have or take a bath, or when you are in the bath, you sit or lie in a bath filled with water in order to wash your body. 3
- verb bath If you bath someone, especially a child, you wash them in a bath. 3
- verb bath Bath is also a noun. 3
- verb bath When you bath, you have a bath. 3
- countable noun bath A bath or a baths is a public building containing a swimming pool, and sometimes other facilities that people can use to have a wash or a bath. 3
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Origin of bath
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English bæth; cognate with Old Frisian beth, Old Saxon, Old Norse bath, German Bad; < Germanic *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to Old High German bājan (German bähen), Swedish basa to warm; pre-Germanic *bheH- to warm, past participle *bhH-to-
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Parts of speech for Bath
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
bath popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
bath usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for bath
noun bath
- shower — a person or thing that shows.
- gargle — to wash or rinse the throat or mouth with a liquid held in the throat and kept in motion by a stream of air from the lungs.
- soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- wash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- ablution — the ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
verb bath
- edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.
- bathe — If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe.
- shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
- vacuuming — a space entirely devoid of matter.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
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