bath
/bɑːθ/ noun A1- A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
- A building or area where bathing occurs.
- The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
- Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this. · Do you prefer baths or showers?
- 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.
- The body of liquid one bathes in.
- A substance or preparation in which something is immersed. · a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
Plural baths
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But the child was so proud of her pretty shoes that she never took them off except at night and when she took her bath.
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.
He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done.
He went away for a dust bath under the castor-oil bushes, while Teddy’s father beat the dead Karait.
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