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bathtub

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɑːθtʌb//
  • United States//ˈbæθtʌb//
  • //ˈbæθtʊb//
  • //ˈbaːtːʊb//

A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath).

noun

  1. 1

    A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath).

    I had a long, leisurely soak in the bathtub.

Etymology

From bath + tub.

Forms

plural
bathtubs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).