gentlemen's room

Noun

gentlemen's room (plural gentlemen's rooms)

1. Any room intended for use by men, particularly
   • From the indenture... we learn that the house [sc. the Fortune Theater] had three tiers, consisting of boxes, rooms, and galleries; that there were "two-penny rooms," and "gentlemen's"...1843, J. Saunders, London, Vol. V, page 278
   • By a sudden turn to the left, we attain ‘The Cottage’; at the far end of its porch is the gentlemen's room, denominated by a contemporary a Lavatory.1845, The Stranger's Guide in Brighton, page 68
2. (historical) A waiting room in a railway station or other public building, often including a separate lavatory.
   • ...Passenger House, containing ticket office, baggage room, ladies' room, gentlemen's room, water closet, say 50 feet by 20 feet...1856, Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, volume 14, number 1, page 71
   • On the west side of the hall, on South Street, is a gentlemen's room twenty-seven by thirty-four feet, and a baggage-room thirty-four by forty-six feet, together with an apartment for gentlemen's water-closets, a hackmen's room, and a newspaper stand.1864 July, First Annual Report of the Directors of the Old Colony and Newport Railway Company, page 11
3. (dated, euphemistic) Synonym of men's room: a public lavatory intended for males.
   • In each ladies' lavatory-room in the palace there were four pairs of these basins, and in each gentlemen's room three pairs and a range of five.1873 July 16, William P. Blake, "Report... upon the Organization, Administration, and Results of the Vienna International Exhibition, 1873", §xi

   Synonyms:

   men's room, bathroom