bath
/bɐːθ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.44 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.
noun
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.
noun
A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
Example Sentences
- "Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence."
- "The master bath has two sinks."
- "Do you prefer baths or showers?"
- "Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy."
- "a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air"
- "He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- Proto-Germanic *baþą Proto-West Germanic *baþ Old English bæþ Middle English bath English bath From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish bad (“bath”), Faroese and Icelandic bað (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bath, bæþ, *baþ, *baþą, *bʰeh₁-, בַּת
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɐːθ/
- British English: [bɑːθ]