bath

noun baths

1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
2. A building or area where bathing occurs. Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
3. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of bathroom The master bath has two sinks.
4. The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
5. Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this. Do you prefer baths or showers?
6. 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. Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.
7. The body of liquid one bathes in.
8. broadly A substance or preparation in which something is immersed. a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

Similar: bain

verb baths · bathing · bathed

1. Commonwealth, transitive To wash a person or animal in a bath. Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.
2. Commonwealth, informal, intransitive To bathe (oneself); to have a bath. “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath;

noun baths

1. historical A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons). Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

proper noun

1. A city in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England, famous for its baths fed by a hot spring.
2. A village in the Netherlands.
3. A village in New Brunswick, Canada.
4. A former settlement in Placer County, California.
5. An unincorporated community in Richmond County, Georgia.
6. A village and township in Mason County, Illinois.
7. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Franklin County, Indiana.
8. A township in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
9. An unincorporated community in Knott County, Kentucky.
10. A city, the county seat of Sagadahoc County, Maine; named for the city in England. Portland also makes a good base from which to explore the rest of southern coastal Maine, from the shops of Kennebunkport to the sprawling L.L. Bean flagship store in Freeport to the charming towns of Bath, Rockland and Camden further up Route 1.
11. A township and census-designated place therein, in Clinton County, Michigan.
12. A township in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
13. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire; named for William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath.
14. A town and village, the county seat of Steuben County, New York.
15. A town in Beaufort County, North Carolina.
16. A township in Allen County, Ohio.
17. A township in Greene County, Ohio.
18. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio.
19. A borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania; named for the city in England.
20. An unincorporated community in Aiken County, South Carolina.
21. A census-designated place and township in Brown County, South Dakota.
22. A town in Morgan County, West Virginia (the official name).

    Similar: Berkeley Springs

23. A locality in Saint John parish, Barbados.
24. A town and mineral spring in Saint Thomas parish, Jamaica; named for the city in England.
25. An English marquisate.
26. A surname.

proper noun

1. uncommon Uncommon form of Baath