gentlemen's

alternative Gentlemen's

1. possessive case of gentlemen: belonging to some or all gentlemen.
2. abbreviationellipsiseuphemisticinformalEllipsis of men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men.

   "I tell you what I must do, is to telephone. Where is it?" "D'you mean really the telephone or the gentlemen's?"

   1934, Evelyn Waugh, chapter III, in Handful of Dust, page 117

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   A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

   1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page 27

   Over on that platform's the general waiting-room,... and over there's the Gentlemen's, and, any'ow, everythink's written up.

   1933, James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer as "Shamus Frazer", Acorned Hog, page 78

   Synonyms: bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC

1. Alternative letter-case form of gentlemen's: a lavatory intended for use by men.

   Over on that platform's the general waiting-room,... and over there's the Gentlemen's, and, any'ow, everythink's written up.

   1933, James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer as "Shamus Frazer", Acorned Hog, page 78