"small room" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: small rooms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} small room (plural small rooms)
  1. (euphemistic, rare) A lavatory: a room intended for urination and defecation. Tags: euphemistic, rare
    Sense id: en-small_room-en-noun-sMKrUMPo Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Rooms, Toilet (room) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 79 21 Disambiguation of Rooms: 63 37 Disambiguation of Toilet (room): 91 9 Synonyms: bathroom [US], latrine, necessarium [humorous], toilet, toilet room [dated], urinal, water closet [UK], WC [UK], cloaca, closet, jacques, kocay, siege, cludgie [Scotland], neddy [Geordie, obsolete], netty [Geordie], shield [Scotland, obsolete], six [North-Wales], facilities, ladies and gentlemen [rare], lavatory, lavabo [humorous, slang], necessary, necessary room, office [archaic], office of ease, place, potty [childish], privy [dated], small room, smallest room, throne room [humorous, slang], cottage [slang], geography, House of Lords [dated, humorous], khazi, usual offices, restroom, teahouse [dated, slang], tearoom [dated, slang], washroom [also], comfort room, CR, closet of decency, closet of ease, house of office, necessary place, purging place, vault, withdraught, wardrobe, shitter [vulgar], urination station, bog [vulgar], carsey, crapper [vulgar], karzy, lats, lav, lavvy, loo, thunderbox [also], can, john, johnny [dated], bogger, brasco, dike [also], dunny [also], jacks, jakes
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see small, room. Derived forms: smallest room
    Sense id: en-small_room-en-noun-EIsDGhpL

Inflected forms

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            "in New Zealand"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:bathroom",
          "tags": [
            "also"
          ],
          "word": "dunny"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:bathroom",
          "word": "jacks"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:bathroom",
          "word": "jakes"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see small, room."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small#English"
        ],
        [
          "room",
          "room#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "small room"
}

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