men's room

noun

A restroom intended for use by males, often including urinals in addition to toilet stalls.

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bathroommen's
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Meanings

nounmen's room (plural men's rooms)

plural men's rooms

  1. A restroom intended for use by males, often including urinals in addition to toilet stalls.

    Search the lounge downstairs. The men's room, the ladies' room.

    1929, Daniel Nathan as "Ellery Queen", The Roman Hat Mystery, Ch. iii, p. 31
  2. Other rooms intended for use by men, as waiting rooms, dressing rooms, locker rooms, etc.

    Synonyms: bathroom

Synonyms & antonyms

nounOther rooms intended for use by men, as waiting rooms, dressing rooms, locker rooms, etc.

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bathroom

More synonyms by meaning

nouna public toilet for men

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men's
Broader
public toiletcomfort stationpublic convenience
Also see
boys' roomgentlemen's roomgents'little boys' roommen's

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Originally a clipped form of gentlemen's room, originally a separate waiting room for men in public buildings such as railway stations but by the appearance of men's room also used as a euphemism for men's lavatories.

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Translations

Bulgarian мъ́жка тоале́тна
  • мъ́жка тоале́тна (mắžka toalétna)lavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Chinese Cantonese 男廁 /男厕, 男界
  • 男廁 /男厕 (naam⁴ ci³)lavatory intended for men — see also toilet
  • 男界 (naam⁴ gaai³)lavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Chinese Mandarin 男廁 /男厕
  • 男廁 /男厕 (náncè)lavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Dutch herenkamer
  • herenkamerother rooms intended for men
Finnish miestenhuone
  • miestenhuonelavatory intended for men — see also toilet
French toilettes pour hommes
  • toilettes pour hommeslavatory intended for men — see also toilet
German Herrentoilette
  • Herrentoilettelavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Hungarian férfivécé, férfi-WC
  • férfivécélavatory intended for men — see also toilet
  • férfi-WClavatory intended for men — see also toilet
  • férfimosdólavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Polish toaleta męska, pokój dla mężczyzn
  • toaleta męskalavatory intended for men — see also toilet
  • pokój dla mężczyznother rooms intended for men
Romanian toaletă pentru bărbați
  • toaletă pentru bărbațilavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Russian мужска́я убо́рная
  • мужска́я убо́рная (mužskája ubórnaja)lavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Swedish herrtoalett, herrarnas
  • herrtoalettlavatory intended for men — see also toilet
  • herrarnaslavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Turkish erkekler tuvaleti
  • erkekler tuvaletilavatory intended for men — see also toilet
Cite this entry
APA

men's room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/men's%20room

MLA

“men's room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/men's%20room. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “men's room,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/men's%20room.

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