Word.ws English Dictionary

vault toilet

vault toilet noun: a facility for accepting human waste, typically through personal use via urination and defecation, where the waste is directed into an extractable vault tank below the access port used by the person needing facilities. When reaching capacity, the vault is removed from underground and moved to a region with a sewage processing system, where it is emptied, to be reimplanted later. Vault toilets typically take the form of an outhouse.

Noun

vault toilet (plural vault toilets)

  1. A facility for accepting human waste, typically through personal use via urination and defecation, where the waste is directed into an extractable vault tank below the access port used by the person needing facilities. When reaching capacity, the vault is removed from underground and moved to a region with a sewage processing system, where it is emptied, to be reimplanted later. Vault toilets typically take the form of an outhouse.

Forms of vault toilet

pluralvault toilets

Questions about vault toilet

What does vault toilet mean?
Vault toilet means a facility for accepting human waste, typically through personal use via urination and defecation, where the waste is directed into an extractable vault tank below the access port used by the person needing facilities. When reaching capacity, the vault is removed from underground and moved to a region with a sewage processing system, where it is emptied, to be reimplanted later. Vault toilets typically take the form of an outhouse.
What part of speech is vault toilet?
Vault toilet is a noun.
What is the plural of vault toilet?
The plural of vault toilet is vault toilets.

Words near vault toilet in the dictionary

  1. Vaughnses
  2. Vaught
  3. Vaughts
  4. vaugnerite
  5. vault
  6. vault toilet
  7. vault toilets
  8. vault-like
  9. vault-worthy
  10. vaultable
  11. vaultage

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vault toilet (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “vault toilet.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vault_toilet. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.