Definition of "bath" in English

noun

1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

2. A building or area where bathing occurs.

3. (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.

   • The master bath has two sinks.

4. The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.

5. The body of liquid one bathes in.

6. (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

   • a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

verb

1. (transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.

2. (intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.

noun

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).

   • Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.