bath

  1. Proper noun.  A city in Somerset, England, famous for its baths fed by a hot spring.
  2. Proper noun.  (rfv-sense) (rare) Abbreviated name for the Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab nationalist political party present in several countries in the Mid-East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
  3. Noun.  A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  4. Noun.  A room or area where bathing occurs: bathroom.
  5. Noun.  The act of bathing.
  6. Noun.  A substance or preparation into which something is immersed.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath.
  8. Noun.  (biblical) An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.

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