Synonyms:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom
Meaning: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
Synonyms:
outhouse, privy, earth-closet, jakes
Meaning: a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
Usage examples
The old nurse who tended her mistress was privy to the damsel's inmost mind.
So with a little company of men, mounted on swift palfreys, and most privy to his mind, he arrived at Salerno.
Mr. Bonteen snarled a good deal, and the new Lord Privy Seal thought that the new President of the Board of Trade was not comfortable within himself.
The meanwhile King Mark within the castle of Tintagil avoided all his barons, and all other save such as were privy with him were avoided out of his chamber.
And so King Mark was armed in black, horse and all; and so at a privy postern they two issued out with their varlets with them, and rode till they came to that lake.