bath

12 definitions • 12 examples

a long plastic, metal, or ceramic container that is filled with water so that you can sit or lie in it to wash your whole body

the activity of washing yourself or someone else in a bath :

mainly UK Susannah has a long hot bath every evening.

mainly US I took a bath this morning.

bath oil

to fill a bath with water for washing:

I'll run you a bath while you take off those wet clothes.

used to refer to a bathroom when describing a home:

a four-bedroom two-bath house

a health treatment:

mud/thermal baths

any container holding liquid:

a bird bath

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In those days it cost about six pence to go to the baths.

a public place where people went in the past to have a hot bath:

Most families had no bathroom and used the public baths instead.

to wash in a bath or to wash someone in a bath:

old-fashioned She baths every morning.

I usually bath the kids in the evening.

the activity of washing yourself or another person or an animal in a large container filled with warm water

When describing homes, a bath can also mean a bathroom:

to lose a lot of money as a result of a bad business deal or investment:

Unless the shares take a bath, they should soon be worth £50K more than when we bought them.