"sanitary towel" meaning in English

See sanitary towel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sanitary towels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sanitary towel (plural sanitary towels)
  1. (UK) Standard form of sanitary napkin: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow. Wikipedia link: sanitary towel Tags: Standard, UK, alt-of Alternative form of: sanitary napkin (extra: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow) Categories (topical): Menstruation

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for sanitary towel meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sanitary towels",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sanitary towel (plural sanitary towels)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow",
          "word": "sanitary napkin"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Menstruation",
          "orig": "en:Menstruation",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Gynaecology",
            "Human",
            "Female",
            "Medicine",
            "All topics",
            "Gender",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Social sciences",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Standard form of sanitary napkin: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow."
      ],
      "id": "en-sanitary_towel-en-noun-5fFDLTqw",
      "links": [
        [
          "sanitary napkin",
          "sanitary napkin#English"
        ],
        [
          "pad",
          "pad"
        ],
        [
          "absorbent",
          "absorbent"
        ],
        [
          "material",
          "material"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ],
        [
          "absorb",
          "absorb"
        ],
        [
          "menstrual",
          "menstrual"
        ],
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) Standard form of sanitary napkin: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Standard",
        "UK",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sanitary towel"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sanitary towel"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sanitary towels",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sanitary towel (plural sanitary towels)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow",
          "word": "sanitary napkin"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Menstruation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Standard form of sanitary napkin: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sanitary napkin",
          "sanitary napkin#English"
        ],
        [
          "pad",
          "pad"
        ],
        [
          "absorbent",
          "absorbent"
        ],
        [
          "material",
          "material"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ],
        [
          "absorb",
          "absorb"
        ],
        [
          "menstrual",
          "menstrual"
        ],
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) Standard form of sanitary napkin: a pad of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Standard",
        "UK",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sanitary towel"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sanitary towel"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.