a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment:
I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose:
running a bath.
a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.
The house has two baths.
a building containing rooms or apartments with e bathhouse.
Often, baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients:
the baths of Caracalla.
Usually, baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by spa.
a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.
the container for such a preparation.
a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc.
Metallurgy.
the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.
the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration:
in a bath of sweat.
to wash or soak in a bath.
take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss:
Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.
before 900; Middle E Old English
cognate with Old Frisian beth, Old Saxon, Old Norse bath, German B < Germanic *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to Old High German bājan (German b?hen), Swedish basa pre-Germanic *bheH- to warm, past participle *bhH-to-
bathless, adjective
to immerse (all or part of the body) in water or some other liquid, for cleansing, refreshment, etc.
to moisten or suffuse with any liquid.
to apply water or other liquid to, with a sponge, cloth, etc.:
to bathe a wound.
to wash over or against, as by the action of the sea, a river, etc.:
incoming tides bathing the coral reef.
to cover or surround:
a shaft of sunli a morning fog bathing the city.
to swim for pleasure.
to be covered or surrounded as if with water.
the act of bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river.
before 1000; Middle English bath(i)en, Old English bathian, equivalent to baeth 1 + -ian infinitive suffix
rebathe, verb, rebathed, rebathing.
UnabridgedBased on the Random House Dictionary, (C) Random House, Inc. 2017.
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May 6, 2014
But Still Walking is bathed in lovely summer light, and it floats on air.
February 2, 2014
I was a student of masculinity from a very young age, (perhaps even as I bathed in a hormone cocktail in the womb).
January 28, 2014
Three and half days after his birth/death, I undressed my son, changed his nappy, bathed him, and dressed him in an outfit.
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Historical Examples
He bathed in this imaginary future as in the waters of omnipotence.
Harry Leon Wilson
Overhead is the starry sky, bathed in the pale radiance of the moon.
Sir Winston S. Churchill
Angelique smiled, as she stood there, dazzled, and as if bathed in the springtide.
Emile Zola
It was Beatriz, bathed in her blood, who fell at the feet of her frenzied lover.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I had bathed and breakfasted, and was strolling on the bright quays.
Charles Dickens
British Dictionary definitions for
a city in SW England, in Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the River Avon: famous a fashionable spa in the 18 Roman remains, university (1966). Pop: 90 144 (2001) Latin name Aquae Sulis ('aekwi:'su:l?s)
(intransitive) to swim or paddle in a body of open water or a river, esp for pleasure
(transitive) to apply liquid to (skin, a wound, etc) in order to cleanse or soothe
to immerse or be immersed in a liquid: to bathe machine parts in oil
(mainly US & Canadian) to wash in a bath
( often passive) to suffuse: her face was bathed with radiance
(transitive) (of water, the sea, etc) wash: waves bathed the shore
(Brit) a swim or paddle in a body of open water or a river
bather, noun
Old English bathian; related to Old Norse batha, Old High German badōn
noun (pl) baths (b?:?z)
a large container, esp one made of enamelled iron or plastic, used for washing or medically treating the body related adjective balneal
the act or an instance of washing in such a container
the amount of liquid contained in a bath
run a bath, to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
(usually pl) a place that provides baths or a swimming pool for public use
a vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature, to process it photographically, electrolytically, etc, or to lubricate it
the liquid used in such a vessel
(Brit) to wash in a bath
Old English baeth; compare Old High German bad, Old Norse bath; related to Swedish basa to clean with warm water, Old High German bāen to warm
an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about 8.3 Imperial gallons or 10 US gallons
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition (C) William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
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Word Origin and History for
Old English bae? "immersing in water, mud, etc.," also "quantity of water, etc., for bathing," from Proto-Germanic *batham (cf. Old Norse ba?, Middle Dutch bat, German bad), from PIE root *bhe- "to warm" (cf. Latin fovere "to foment") + Germanic *-thuz suffix indicating "act, process, condition" (cf. birth, death). Original sense was of heating, not immersing in water. The city in Somerset, England (Old English Ba?un) was so called from its hot springs. Bath salts attested from 1875 (Dr. Julius Braun, "On the Curative Effects of Baths and Waters").
Old English ba?ian "to wash, lave, bathe" (transitive and intransitive), from root of
(q.v.), with different vowel sound due to . Related: Bathed; .
Online Etymology Dictionary, (C) 2010 Douglas Harper
in Medicine
bath (bāth)n. pl.
baths (bā?z, bāths)
The act of soaking or cleansing the body or any of its parts, as in water.
The apparatus used in giving a bath.
The fluid used to maintain the metabolic activities of an organism.
The American Heritage(R) Stedman's Medical DictionaryCopyright (C) , 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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