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Jakes

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

noun-plural. Chiefly British A latrine; a privy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A privy or latrine.

n. Plural form of jake.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A privy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A privy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

Word Usage

"In the beginning of his pamphlet, Harington contends that the slang jakes refers to the Greek Captain Ajax, who upon his suicide morphed into grass."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

outbuilding

Form

Jake

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

privy

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Lakes aches aix bakes brakes breaks cakes drakes fakes flakes

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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