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girls' room, powder-room, Brit loo, lav, US can; Slang Brit bog:
Our new house has two upstairs bathrooms and a downstairs
lavatory.
lavish adj. 1 profuse, abundant, liberal, copious, plentiful,
prolific, opulent: He wore a silk tunic with lavish gold
embroidery. 2 generous, liberal, open-handed, unstinting,
bountiful, unsparing, unselfish, effusive, free: She showered
the most lavish gifts on her children. 3 extravagant, wasteful,
exaggerated, prodigal, improvident, excessive, unreasonable,
immoderate, profligate, uncurbed, unrestrained, intemperate:
The council was accused of lavish overspending on the civic
centre.
--v. 4 squander, waste, throw away, dissipate, spend, expend,
sink: We lavished a fortune on the gardens. 5 shower, bestow,
thrust, heap, pour: Granny always lavished gifts on us.
law n. 1 rule, regulation, ordinance, statute, act, enactment,
by-law, measure, edict, decree, order, directive, injunction,
command, commandment, canon, mandate, ukase: They have a law
that forbids smoking on aeroplanes. 2 corpus juris, (legal)
code, constitution, rules and regulations, charter, Law equity:
The law must be applied equally to all citizens. 3 principle,
proposition, theory, theorem, formula, axiom, deduction,
corollary, postulate, conclusion, inference: Not every
observable phenomenon obeys the laws of physics.
lawful adj. 1 legal, licit, legitimate, de jure, constitutional, just,
rightful, valid, proper: I am the lawful heir. 2 permissible,
allowable, justifiable, authorized, allowed, permitted: It is
not lawful to let your dog foul the footpath.
lawless adj. 1 anarchic(al), anarchistic, chaotic, unruly, unregulated:
There was a lawless period between the revolution and the
establishment of government. 2 illegal, illicit, unlawful,
criminal, felonious, larcenous, dishonest, corrupt, venal,
Colloq crooked: Holding a demonstration without a permit is a
lawless act. 3 villainous, nefarious, wicked, sinful,
flagitious, iniquitous, treacherous: He was once a member of a
lawless motor-cycle gang.
lawn n. sward, greensward, turf, sod, green: I lay back on the lawn