Meaning & use
bathroom stall
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UK/ˈbɑːθruːm stɔːl/
US/ˈbæθruːm stɔːl/
Meaning
nouncountable
A small enclosed compartment with a door in a public restroom, containing a toilet for one person.
Grammar: Countable: the last bathroom stall, three bathroom stalls.
Patterns
- in a bathroom stall
- a bathroom stall door
She waited until a bathroom stall was free.
Someone left a purse on the floor of the bathroom stall.
The bathroom stall door would not lock, so he chose another.
Word forms
| plural | bathroom stalls |
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Common combinations
- empty bathroom stall
- I found an empty bathroom stall at the end of the row.
- lock the bathroom stall
- Always lock the bathroom stall before you sit.
- occupied bathroom stall
- The occupied bathroom stall had its door closed.
- bathroom stall door
- A sign was taped to the bathroom stall door.
- wait for a bathroom stall
- We had to wait for a bathroom stall during the interval.
Synonyms and how they differ
- toilet cubicle
- Toilet cubicle is the usual British equivalent and means exactly the same compartment.
- restroom stall
- Restroom stall is another American variant and is often used in formal settings.
- cubicle
- Cubicle is a general word for any small enclosed space, so it needs context to mean a toilet compartment.
- WC
- WC is an older, mostly British abbreviation for a toilet, not for a compartment inside a larger room.
Word family
Commonly confused: bathroom stall or market stall?
bathroom stall vs market stall
A market stall is a table or booth where goods are sold, unrelated to a toilet compartment.
Practice
In a public restroom, a bathroom stall is ____.
Choose one answer.
A bathroom stall is the closed compartment around a toilet. It is not a shop, sink or elevator.
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