bath
see also: Bath
Pronunciation
  • enPR: bäth, IPA: /bɑːθ/
    • (RP, South Africa) IPA: [bɑːθ]
    • (India) IPA: [bɑːt̪ʰ]
    • (AU, New Zealand) IPA: /bɐːθ/
  • enPR: băth, IPA: /bæθ/
    • (America, Canada) IPA: [bæθ⁓bɛəθ⁓beəθ]
    • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: [baθ⁓bæθ]
Noun

bath (plural baths)

  1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  2. A building or area where bathing occurs.
    • Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
  3. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom#English|bathroom.
    The master bath has two sinks.
  4. The act of bathing.
  5. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
    a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
Translations Translations Translations Verb

bath (baths, present participle bathing; past and past participle bathed)

  1. (transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath
Translations Noun

bath (plural baths)

  1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
    • 1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11:
      Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Bath
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /bɑːθ/
  • (South West England) IPA: /bæːθ/
  • (Northern England) IPA: /bæθ/
Proper noun
  1. A city in Somerset, England.
  2. A city/county seat in Sagadahoc County, Maine.
  3. A town/and/mineral spring in Jamaica, ;.
  4. A town in New Hampshire, ;.
  5. A town/and/village/county seat in Steuben County, New York.
  6. A town in North Carolina.
  7. A town in Ohio.
  8. A borough in Pennsylvania, ;.
  9. A village in Illinois.
  10. A village in Netherlands.
  11. A village in New Brunswick.
  12. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
Translations
  • Russian: Бат
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /bæθ/, /bɑːθ/
Proper noun
  1. (rare, nonstandard, usually in the phrase ‘Bath Party’) A secular Arab nationalist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.



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