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bath

Pronunciation: /bɑːθ/

The English word “bath” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  2. A building or area where bathing occurs.
  3. The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
  4. Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.
  5. An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath.
  6. The body of liquid one bathes in.
  7. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
  8. A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).

verb

  1. To wash a person or animal in a bath.
  2. To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.

Etymology

From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish bad (“bath”), Faroese and Icelandic bað (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”).

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