bath

bath¹ W3S2 [ba:θ US bæθ] n plural baths [ba:ðz, ba:θs US bæðz, bæθs]

[: Old English; Origin: bAth]

1.) if you take a bath, you wash your body in a bath

▪ After a week of camping, I really needed a bath.

take/have a bath

▪ I'll have a bath and go to bed.

▪ How often do you take a bath?

▪ I'll give the children their bath (=wash them in a bath) .

2.) BrE a large long container that you fill with water and sit or lie in to wash yourself

American Equivalent: bathtub

3.) water that you sit or lie in to wash yourself

▪ a hot bath

▪ She ran a bath (=put water into a bath) for herself.

4.) a bathroom, used especially in advertising

▪ All our luxury bedrooms have a private bath.

5.) a container full of liquid in which something is placed for a particular purpose

bath of

▪ Plunge the fabric into a bath of black dye.

6.) baths

a) BrE old-fashioned a public building in which there is a swimming pool

b) a public building where people could go in the past to wash themselves

▪ the Roman baths at Cirencester

7.) take a bath

AmE informal to lose money, especially in a business deal

▪ We took a bath in the market over that stock.

→↑birdbath, ↑bubble bath,throw the baby out with the bath water at ↑throw¹ (37)

bath ²

bath² v BrE

1.) [T]

to wash someone in a bath

American Equivalent: bathe

▪ I'll bath the children.

2.) [i]old-fashioned to wash yourself in a bath

American Equivalent: bathe

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HINT sense 2

It is more usual to say have a bath British English or take a bath AmE.

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