bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bäth
ipa: /bɑːθ/
ipa: [bɑːθ]
ipa: [bäːt̪ʰ]
ipa: [bäːt̪]
ipa: /bɐːθ/
enpr: băth
ipa: /bæθ/
ipa: [bæθ~bɛəθ~beəθ]
ipa: [baθ~bäθ]
rhymes: -ɑːθ
rhymes: -æθ
homophone: barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)
Forms: form: baths
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
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.
Senses: glosses: A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
examples: text: Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
ref: 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture:
glosses: A building or area where bathing occurs.
examples: text: The master bath has two sinks.
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: Clipping of bathroom.
examples: text: Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:
glosses: The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
glosses: The body of liquid one bathes in.
examples: text: a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
text: He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
ref: 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
glosses: A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
Synonyms: word: bain
Derived terms: aerotone bath
afterbath
air-bath
air bath
bath bomb
bath book
bath-brush
bath chair
Bath County
bath cube
bath dodger
bathe
bathful
bath-house
bathinette
bathkeeper
bath kimono
bathless
bathlike
bathman
bath-man
bath man
bath mat
bath pearl
bathplug
bathrobe
bathroom
bath room
bath salt
bath salts
bath scraper
bath sheet
bath sponge
bathtime
bath time
bath towel
bath tub
bathtub
bathward
bathwards
bathware
bathwater
bath water
bathwear
bed bath
bed-bath
bird bath
birdbath
bitch bath
blanket bath
blood bath
bloodbath
bubble bath
catbath
compressed-air bath
corner bath
cryobath
draw a bath
dust bath
dyebath
early bath
earth bath
electric bath
eyebath
fire-bath
firebath
foam bath
footbath
foot-bath
foot bath
gannet's bath
gannets' bath
gong bath
half-bath
half bath
have a bath
hip bath
hydrobath
ice bath
intrabath
Matlock Bath
monobath
moonbath
mud bath
myobath
Nauheim bath
negative bath
oilbath
oil bath
plunge bath
postbath
powder bath
prebath
Roman bath
run a bath
Russian bath
sand bath
shath
shower bath
showerbath
silver bath
sitz bath
sound bath
spa bath
spin bath
spit bath
sponge bath
starbath
steam bath
sulfur bath
sulphur bath
sun-bath
sunbath
sun bath
swan's bath
swimming bath
take a bath
throw out the baby with the bath water
throw the baby out with the bath water
tin bath
tongue-bath
tongue bath
trap-bath split
Turkish bath
ultrasonic bath
vapour bath
water bath
water-bath
whore bath
whore's bath