bath
pronunciation
How to pronounce bath in British English:
UK [bɑːθ]
How to pronounce bath in American English:
US [bæθ]
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- Noun:
- a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)
- you soak your body in a bathtub
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons
- a room (as in a residence) containing a bath or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet
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- Verb:
- clean one's body by immersion into water
Word Origin
- bath
- bath: [OE] Bath is a word widely dispersed among the Germanic languages (German has bad, as does Swedish). Like the others, Old English bæth goes back to a hypothetical Germanic *batham, which perhaps derives from the base *ba- (on the suffix -th see BIRTH). If this is so, it would be an indication (backed up by other derivatives of the same base, such as bake, and cognate words such as Latin fovēre ‘heat’, source of English foment) that the original notion contained in the word was of ‘heat’ rather than ‘washing’.This is preserved in the steam bath and the Turkish bath. The original verbal derivative was bathe, which goes back to Germanic *bathōn (another derivative of which, Old Norse batha, had a reflexive form bathask, which probably lies behind English bask); use of bath as a verb dates from the 15th century.=> bask, bathe
- bath (n.)
- Old English bæð "immersing in water, mud, etc.," also "quantity of water, etc., for bathing," from Proto-Germanic *batham (cognates: Old Norse bað, Middle Dutch bat, German bad), from PIE root *bhe- "to warm" (see fever) + Germanic *-thuz suffix indicating "act, process, condition" (as in birth, death). Original sense was of heating, not immersing in water. The city in Somerset, England (Old English Baðun) was so called from its hot springs. Bath salts attested from 1875 (Dr. Julius Braun, "On the Curative Effects of Baths and Waters").
Example
- 1. Try a bath take a warm bath before bedtime .
- 2. Take a long hot bath with lots of bubbles or soak in a hot tub .
- 3. Take a hot bath , you 'll fee better .
- 4. The bath was long enough for a basketball player .
- 5. Add lavender oil to bath water to promote moisture .