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1 VERB If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe . [mainly BRIT , FORMAL ] □ [V prep/adv] The police have warned the city's inhabitants not to bathe in the polluted river. [Also V ] ● N‑SING Bathe is also a noun. □  Fifty soldiers were taking an early morning bathe in a nearby lake. ●  bath|ing N‑UNCOUNT □  Nude bathing is not allowed.

2 VERB When you bathe , you have a bath. [AM , also BRIT , FORMAL ] □ [V ] At least 60% of us now bathe or shower once a day.

3 VERB If you bathe someone, especially a child, you wash them in a bath. [AM , also BRIT , FORMAL ] □ [V n] Back home, Shirley plays with, feeds and bathes the baby.

4 VERB If you bathe a part of your body or a wound, you wash it gently or soak it in a liquid. □ [V n] Bathe the infected area in a salt solution.

5 VERB If a place is bathed in light, it is covered with light, especially a gentle, pleasant light. □ [be V -ed + in ] The arena was bathed in warm sunshine. □ [V n + in ] The lamp behind him seems to bathe him in warmth. [Also V n]

6 → see also sunbathe

bathed /be I ðd/

1 ADJ If someone is bathed in sweat, they are sweating a great deal. □ [+ in ] Chantal was writhing in pain and bathed in perspiration.

2 ADJ If someone is bathed in a particular emotion such as love, they feel it constantly in a pleasant way. [LITERARY ] □ [+ in ] …a physical sensation of being bathed in love.

bath|er /be I ðə ^r / (bathers ) N‑COUNT A bather is a person who is swimming in the sea, or in a river or lake. [mainly BRIT , FORMAL ]

bath|house /bɑː θhaʊs/ (bathhouses ) also bath house N‑COUNT A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths, and often other facilities such as a sauna.

bath|ing cos|tume /be I ð I ŋ kɒstjuːm, [AM ] -tuːm/ (bathing costumes ) N‑COUNT A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls. [BRIT , OLD-FASHIONED ]

bath|ing suit /be I ð I ŋ suːt/ (bathing suits ) N‑COUNT A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming. [OLD-FASHIONED ]

bath|ing trunks /be I ð I ŋ trʌŋks/ N‑PLURAL Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming. [OLD-FASHIONED ]

bath|mat /bɑː θmæt, bæ θ-/ (bathmats ) also bath mat N‑COUNT A bathmat is a mat which you stand on while you dry yourself after getting out of the bath.

ba|thos /be I θɒs/ N‑UNCOUNT In literary criticism, bathos is a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to a ridiculous or very ordinary one. [TECHNICAL ]

bath|robe /bɑː θroʊb/ (bathrobes )

1 N‑COUNT A bathrobe is a loose piece of clothing made of the same material as towels. You wear it before or after you have a bath or a swim.

2 N‑COUNT A bathrobe is a dressing gown .

bath|room ◆◇◇ /bɑː θruːm, bæ θ-/ (bathrooms )

1 N‑COUNT A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.

2 N‑SING A bathroom is a room in a house or public building that contains a toilet. [AM ] □  She had gone in to use the bathroom. in BRIT, usually use toilet

3 PHRASE People say that they are going to the bathroom when they want to say that they are going to use the toilet. [POLITENESS ]

ba th tow|el (bath towels ) N‑COUNT A bath towel is a very large towel used for drying your body after you have had a bath.

bath|tub /bɑː θtʌb, bæ θ-/ (bathtubs ) N‑COUNT A bathtub is a long, usually rectangular container which you fill with water and sit in to wash your body. [AM ] in BRIT, use bath

ba th wa|ter also bathwater N‑UNCOUNT Your bath water is the water in which you sit or lie when you have a bath.

ba|tik /bətiː k, bæ t I k/ (batiks )

1 N‑UNCOUNT Batik is a process for printing designs on cloth. Wax is put on those areas of the cloth that you do not want to be coloured by dye. □  …batik bedspreads.

2 N‑VAR A batik is a cloth which has been printed with a batik design. □  …batik from Bali.