noun

restroom

REST-room/ˈrestruːm/

A room with toilets and sinks for public or workplace use.

The restroom has two sinks and enclosed toilet stalls.

Clean public restroom interior with two sinks and two enclosed toilet stalls, one stall door ajar showing toilet, no signs, no people; compact architectural vignette.

Etymology

A restroom was originally a room for rest and quiet in a workplace or public building. Because such rooms often had adjoining toilet facilities, the name became a polite term for the facilities themselves.

In context

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so instead we replace the toilet room or the bathroom in rooms where there aren't even baths right a public restroom or bathroom is called a bathroom

Philosophy 102 - Week 6 - Chapter 5: Rhetoric

More examples

She asked where the restroom was.
The building has accessible restrooms.
A cleaner checked the restroom.

Forms

restroom · restrooms

Similar words

bathroom: Can be private and may contain bathing facilities.
lavatory: A more formal term for a room with toilets.