urinal
/jʊəˈraɪnəl//ˈjʊɹɪnəl/
urinal noun: a device or fixture used for urination, particularly.
Noun
urinal (plural urinals)
- A device or fixture used for urination, particularly
- This was the second time in the last few months that she was asked to install a urinal in a luxury residential project, and she said she knows many other designers and architects who have been specifying home urinals in their projects.2007 January 25, Suzanne Gannon, “For the High-End Bathroom, Something Unexpected”, in The New York Times
- A glass vial used for examining or storing urine.
- A chamber pot specially designed or considered as a device for urination.
- Synonyms:
- can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder, guzunder, honey bucket
- A device for urination worn or used by patients suffering urinary incontinence.
- A plumbing fixture intended for standing urination, typically by men and boys.
- Any oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal.
- A room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.
- Synonyms:
- bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, water closet, WC, cloaca, closet, jacques
Adjective
urinal (not comparable)
- Synonym of urinary.
- If on the other hand it is to be used by a congregation, which as a rule, only occupy their church once, twice or three times a week, then I would suggest where it can be obtained that an improved “water closet” be used, and by this I mean a urinal and fecal basin, which can be kept clean by...1892, R. Harvey Reed, “How Can We Control the Privy Vault Nuisance?”, in Gilbert I. Cullen, editor, The Cincinnati Medical Journal, volume VII, number 4, Cincinnati, Oh.: M. A. Spencer & Co., pages...
- Q. What amount, in cubic feet, would there be in Port Huron for one year, of fecal and urinal discharge into the sewers?1903, In the Supreme Court of the United States: The State of Missouri vs. the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, pages 2504–2505
- Synonyms:
- urinary
urinal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Gujarati
urinal in Hindi
- urinal
- मुताली mutālī
urinal in Tamil
- சிறுநீர்க் கலம், சிறுநீர்க் கழிப்பிடம், சிறுநீர்க்கழிப்பிடம், கழிநீரகம், சிறுநீரேந்தி, சிறுநீர் கழிப்பிடம்
urinal in Kannada
- ತಳ್ಳೆಡೆ, ಶೌಚಾಲಯ
urinal in Gujarati
- urinal
- મુતરિયું mutriyũ
More languagesFewer languages
- urinal in Tagalog
- ihian
- urinal in Arabic
- مِبْوَلَة mibwala
- urinal in Indonesian
- urinoar
Examples of urinal in a sentence
- The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal.
- How does a waterless urinal have a drain trap?
- While the thought of a home urinal may seem vaguely “Animal House,” Mr.
Synonyms of urinal
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Forms of urinal
| plural | urinals |
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Origin of urinal
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.
From Middle French urinal, from Late Latin ūrīnālis, equivalent to urine + -al.
Words formed from urinal
Phrases with urinal
Words that rhyme with urinal
- final
- anticlinal
- interspinal
- officinal
- spinal
- synclinal
- bulbospinal
- clinal
- doctrinal
- extravaginal
- geosynclinal
- intravaginal
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- matutinal
- quarterfinal
- rhinal
- semifinal
- serotinal
- vaginal
- abdominovaginal
- affinal
- anginal
- anospinal
- anovaginal
- antevaginal
- audiospinal
- binal
- botulinal
- brachiovaginal
- carinal
- cerebellospinal
- cerebrospinal
- cervicovaginal
- ciliospinal
- circumvaginal
- clitourethrovaginal
- coeruleospinal
- colovaginal
- corticospinal
- craniospinal
- diencephalospinal
- encephalospinal
- endovaginal
- enterovaginal
- epispinal
- eugeosynclinal
- extraspinal
- hemispinal
- holospinal
- hypothalamospinal
- ileovaginal
- iliospinal
- infraspinal
- intervaginal
- intra-vaginal
- intraspinal
- ischiovaginal
- isoclinal
- mediastinal
- medullispinal
- medullospinal
Questions about urinal
- What does urinal mean?
- Urinal means a device or fixture used for urination, particularly.
- What is urinal in Hindi?
- Urinal in Hindi is मुताली (mutālī). See Urinal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is urinal?
- Urinal can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce urinal?
- Urinal is pronounced /jʊəˈraɪnəl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of urinal?
- The plural of urinal is urinals.
Words near urinal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: urinal (page history and authors); मुताली (Hindi) (page history and authors); urinal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urinal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); મુતરિયું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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