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toilet is a noun:

  1. Personal grooming; washing, dressing etc.
    "1917 "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking." — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"."
  2. A dressing room.
  3. A room or enclosed cubicle containing a lavatory, e.g., a bathroom or water closet (w.c.).
    "1906 there were also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered with food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers. — Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 26."
  4. A lavatory or device for depositing human waste and then flushing it away with water.
    "EPA is currently developing the specification for high-efficiency toilets. All HETs that meet WaterSense criteria for efficiency and performance will be eligible to receive a label once EPA finalizes the specification. — [http://www.epa.gov/watersense/partners/specs/het.htm US Environmental Protection Agency.]"
  5. Other similar devices, such as squat toilets, as in Japan or the Middle East.
  6. A shabby or dirty place, especially, a lounge/bar/pub/tavern.
    "1982 Look around you. It's a toilet. — Harrison Ford to River Phoenix in w:The Mosquito Coast."

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What type of word is toilet?

As detailed above, 'toilet' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: 1917 "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking." — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge".
  2. Noun usage: 1917Reports from abroad and from this country indicate that great good has been accomplished in infectious diseases and in catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract by so-called toilet of the mouth, nose, and throat. — US Army, "Circular Letter, Surgeon General’s Office, March 22, 1918", [http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/1918flu/Documents/Extractsonflu.htm here.]
  3. Noun usage: 1906 there were also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered with food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers. — Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 26.
  4. Noun usage: When feasible, place the toilet near the river's edge to encourage urination in the river unless there is adequate volume for urination in the toilet. [http://www.nps.gov/cany/river/toilets.htm US National Parks Service].
  5. Noun usage: EPA is currently developing the specification for high-efficiency toilets. All HETs that meet WaterSense criteria for efficiency and performance will be eligible to receive a label once EPA finalizes the specification. — [http://www.epa.gov/watersense/partners/specs/het.htm US Environmental Protection Agency.]
  6. Noun usage: 1982 Look around you. It's a toilet. — Harrison Ford to River Phoenix in w:The Mosquito Coast.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of toilet are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of toilet, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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