bath

Meanings

Noun

• A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
• A building or area where bathing occurs.
• Short form of bathroom
• The act of bathing.
• The body of liquid one bathes in.
• A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
• A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23L or 6 gallons).

Verb

• To wash a person or animal in a bath

Related

Similar words

• bain

Origin

• From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ ("bath"), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-. Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.
• From Hebrew בַּת.