What is another word for latrine?

Pronunciation: [lɐtɹˈiːn] (IPA)

Latrine is a word that refers to a toilet or an outdoor facility used for the disposal of human waste. While latrine is a commonly used term, there are other words and phrases that could be used to refer to the same type of facility. Some synonyms for latrine include restroom, lavatory, privy, outhouse, porta-potty, and commode. Other less common terms that could be used include water closet, dunny, thunderbox, and pit toilet. These words all refer to a place where people can go to relieve themselves and dispose of any waste, but the specific term used may vary depending on the region or context.

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Usage examples for Latrine

A few days after this, Medlicott and I learnt that four Frenchmen were cutting a bar in the latrine with the object of escaping across the frozen moat.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
When I came to the latrine, I pretended to enter the door but actually stepped behind the hut, and walked rapidly away, keeping the hut between the sentry and myself.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
They had been forced to abandon their homes and their professions, and yet during the whole length of the war they found no higher duty to do for France than sweep out a barrack-yard or clean out a military latrine.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Latrine

  • His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
    Kingsley Amis
  • Earth, earth riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, you are becoming a latrine.
    Anne Sexton
  • Later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
    Ken Kesey
  • "I'm a Soldier, not a bloody clerk! I fetch bloody forage, count bloody shovels, and take punishment drills. It's yes, sir, no, sir, can I dig your latrine, sir, and it's not bloody soldiering!" "It is bloody soldiering! What the hell else do you think soldiering is? Do you think you can win a war without forage? Or without shovels? Or, God help us, without latrines? That is soldiering! Just because you've been allowed to swan about like a bloody pirate for years doesn't mean you shouldn't take your turn at real work."
    Bernard Cornwell

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