adj
Meaning 1
Synonym of urinary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: urinary
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
urinal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: yo͞o-rīʹnəl
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Received-Pronunciation: /jʊəˈraɪnəl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: yo͝orʹĭn-əl
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US: yûrʹĭn-əl
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US: /ˈjʊɹɪnəl/
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US: /ˈjɝɪnəl/
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General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Australian: yo͝orʹĭn-əl
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Australian: /ˈjʉːəɹɪnəl/
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South-Asia: yo͝orʹĭn-əl
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South-Asia: /ˈju.rɪ.nəl/
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rhymes with -aɪnəl
noun
Meaning 2
A device or fixture used for urination, particularly
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A device or fixture used for urination
A glass vial used for examining or storing urine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: alchemy, medicine, pseudoscience, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A device or fixture used for urination
A chamber pot specially designed or considered as a device for urination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder, guzunder, honey bucket, honeypot, Jerry, john, johnny, jordan, latrine, mingo, necessary stool, pan, pee pot, pisspot, piss pot, po, pot, potty, potty-chair, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, slop bucket, stool, stool of easement, throne, thunder mug, toilet, urinal
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A device or fixture used for urination
A device for urination worn or used by patients suffering urinary incontinence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A device or fixture used for urination
A plumbing fixture intended for standing urination, typically by men and boys.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: big white telephone, bog, can, commode, crapper, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny, head, highway to hell, jacks, jakes, john, khazi, latrine, lav, pisser, pooper, porcelain god, porcelain goddess, porcelain throne, pot, potty, privy, Quincy, shitcan, shitpot, shitter, stool, throne, toilet, toot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Any oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet, jacques, kocay, siege, cludgie, neddy, netty, shield, six, facilities, ladies and gentlemen, lavatory, lavabo, necessary, necessary room, office, office of ease, place, potty, privy, small room, smallest room, throne room, cottage, geography, House of Lords, khazi, usual offices, restroom, teahouse, tearoom, washroom, comfort room, CR, closet of decency, closet of ease, house of office, necessary place, purging place, vault, withdraught, wardrobe, shitter, urination station, bog, carsey, crapper, karzy, lats, lav, lavvy, loo, thunderbox, can, john, johnny, bogger, brasco, dike, dunny, jacks, jakes
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
a plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plumbing fixture
History
Etymology
From Middle French urinal, from Late Latin ūrīnālis, equivalent to urine + -al.
From Middle English urinal, urynal, orynal, from Old French urinal, orinal (“vessel for urination”), from Latin ūrīnālis (“urinary”). Use for plumbing fixtures attested from 1851.
Across languages
Translations
74 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: подлога (podloga) — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Catalan: orinal — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Chinese Mandarin: 小便池 (iǎobiànchí) — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Czech: bažant — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Dutch: urinaal — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Finnish: potta — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- French: pistolet — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- French: urinal — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- German: Ente — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Irish: fualán — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Irish: briollán — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Italian: pappagallo — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Polish: nocnik — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Portuguese: mictório — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Serbo-Croatian: ćurak — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Serbo-Croatian: curenje — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Sicilian: urinali — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Spanish: chata — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Spanish: orinal — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Swedish: urinoar — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Swedish: pissoar — a vessel specially used for urination — see also chamber pot
- Arabic: مِبْوَلَة (mibwala) — fixture for standing urination
- Bulgarian: писоар (pisoar) — fixture for standing urination
- Catalan: urinari — fixture for standing urination
- Chinese Mandarin: 便池 (biànchí) — fixture for standing urination
- Chinese Mandarin: 便器 (biànqì) — fixture for standing urination
- Chinese Mandarin: 尿兜 (niàodōu) — fixture for standing urination
- Chinese Mandarin: 小便器 (xiǎobiànqì) — fixture for standing urination
- Czech: pisoár — fixture for standing urination
- Danish: urinal — fixture for standing urination
- Danish: urinale — fixture for standing urination
- Dutch: urinoir — fixture for standing urination
- Dutch: pisbak — fixture for standing urination
- Finnish: pisoaari — fixture for standing urination
- Finnish: urinaali — fixture for standing urination
- French: urinoir — fixture for standing urination
- German: Urinal — fixture for standing urination
- German: Pissoir — fixture for standing urination
- German: Pinkelbecken — fixture for standing urination
- Greek: ουρητήριο (ouritírio) — fixture for standing urination
- Hungarian: piszoár — fixture for standing urination
- Icelandic: pissuskál — fixture for standing urination
- Icelandic: þvagskál — fixture for standing urination
- Indonesian: urinoar — fixture for standing urination
- Irish: úirinéal — fixture for standing urination
- Irish: fualán — fixture for standing urination
- Italian: orinatoio — fixture for standing urination
- Japanese: 便器 (benki) — fixture for standing urination
- Korean: 변기 (byeon'gi) — fixture for standing urination
- Korean: 소변기 (sobyeon'gi) — fixture for standing urination
- Lithuanian: pisuaras — fixture for standing urination
- Luxembourgish: Pissoir — fixture for standing urination
- Macedonian: писоа́р (pisoár) — fixture for standing urination
- Māori: mīanga — fixture for standing urination
- Norwegian Bokmål: pissoar — fixture for standing urination
- Norwegian Bokmål: urinal — fixture for standing urination
- Norwegian Nynorsk: pissoar — fixture for standing urination
- Norwegian Nynorsk: urinal — fixture for standing urination
- Polish: pisuar — fixture for standing urination
- Portuguese: urinol — fixture for standing urination
- Portuguese: mictório — fixture for standing urination
- Romanian: pisoar — fixture for standing urination
- Russian: писсуа́р (pissuár) — fixture for standing urination
- Sicilian: urinali — fixture for standing urination
- Sicilian: rinali — fixture for standing urination
- Spanish: urinario — fixture for standing urination
- Spanish: mingitorio — fixture for standing urination
- Spanish: meadero — fixture for standing urination
- Swedish: urinoar — fixture for standing urination
- Swedish: pissoar — fixture for standing urination
- Tagalog: ihian — fixture for standing urination
- Turkish: pisuvar — fixture for standing urination
- Ukrainian: пісуа́р (pisuár) — fixture for standing urination
- Welsh: troethfa — fixture for standing urination