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See also: wc, w/c, and w.-c.

English

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Noun

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WC (plural WCs)

  1. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Initialism of water closet: a lavatory; a toilet.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:toilet, Thesaurus:bathroom
    • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 54:
      In the summer of 1877, a gentleman with whom I was well acquainted, took lodgings in Preston-street, Brighton. The morning after his arrival, he found in the W.C. some leaves of an old black-letter book.
  2. (proofreading) Initialism of word choice.
  3. (sports) Abbreviation of world championship.
    Coordinate terms: WDC, WEC, WRC
  4. (sports) Abbreviation of world cup.
    Coordinate terms: HWC, WCH, WHC
  5. (in personal ads) Initialism of white couple.
    Hyponym: MWC

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(water closet):

  • Czech: WC
  • Dutch: wc
  • Estonian: veetsee, vets
  • Finnish: WC, vessa
  • French: WC
  • Greek: βεσέ (vesé)
  • German: WC
  • Hungarian: WC
  • Polish: WC, wuce
  • Portuguese: WC
  • Romanian: WC, veceu
  • Serbo-Croatian: WC, vece

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Czech

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WC n (indeclinable)

  1. WC
    Synonym: záchod

Further reading

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  • WC”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Estonian

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WC (genitive WC, partitive WC-d)

  1. toilet, lavatory, WC

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From English WC.

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WC

  1. WC (water closet)

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French

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Borrowed from English.

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WC m pl (plural only)

  1. (plural only) WC (toilets)
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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English WC.

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WC n (strong, genitive WCs, plural WCs)

  1. WC (water closet)
    Synonyms: Toilette, Klo, Wasserklosett

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Further reading

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  • WC” in Duden online
  • WC” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From English WC.

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WC (plural WC-k)

  1. water closet, toilet

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative WC WC-k
accusative WC-t WC-ket
dative WC-nek WC-knek
instrumental WC-vel WC-kkel
causal-final WC-ért WC-kért
translative WC-vé WC-kké
terminative WC-ig WC-kig
essive-formal WC-ként WC-kként
essive-modal
inessive WC-ben WC-kben
superessive WC-n WC-ken
adessive WC-nél WC-knél
illative WC-be WC-kbe
sublative WC-re WC-kre
allative WC-hez WC-khez
elative WC-ből WC-kből
delative WC-ről WC-kről
ablative WC-től WC-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
WC-é WC-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
WC-éi WC-kéi
Possessive forms of WC
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. WC-m WC-im
2nd person sing. WC-d WC-id
3rd person sing. WC-je WC-i
1st person plural WC-nk WC-ink
2nd person plural WC-tek WC-itek
3rd person plural WC-jük WC-ik

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English WC, an initialism for water closet.

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  • IPA(key): /²veːsə/, /vəˈseː/

Noun

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WC m or n (definite singular WCen or WCet, indefinite plural WCar or WC, definite plural WCane or WCa)

  1. WC; water closet (room containing a toilet, especially one in a commercial establishment)
    Synonyms: toalett, klosett

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

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Etymology

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Orthographic borrowing from English WC.

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WC n (indeclinable)

  1. lavatory, loo, toilet, water closet, WC
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ubikacja

Further reading

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  • WC in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • WC in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English WC.

Noun

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WC m (plural WCs)

  1. WC; water closet (room containing a toilet, especially one in a commercial establishment)
    Synonym: banheiro