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How to pronounce latrine in English?

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Type of public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room, comfort station, convenience, public convenience, public lavatory

Examples of latrine

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A kitchen and latrine had been set up, as well as several garbage dumping areas.
From the sacbee.com
He dug trails and performed other necessary work, including as latrine orderly.
From the post-gazette.com
But if you live on soft ground near a lake, that latrine just keeps collapsing.
From the guardian.co.uk
Liu Bang lied that he needed to go to the latrine and escaped back to his camp.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Instead, 12 hours after that e-mail, he went into a latrine and shot himself.
From the cnn.com
An estimated 131 million Indian homes don't have a latrine or a clean toilet.
From the npr.org
By last autumn, the proportion of households with a latrine had risen to 39%.
From the guardian.co.uk
The crew maintains a trench latrine, which gets covered with dirt and fire-pit ash.
From the thenewstribune.com
The limestone seat on view was placed over a latrine box in an 18th-dynasty palace.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • A public toilet in a military area
  • A toilet, often for the use of a large number of people.
  • Military name for a bathroom, usually without a bathtub. Could contain more than one shower and commode.
  • The backcountry toilet. Basically just a hole in the ground set well back from the water's edge and topped by a molded one-plastic seat with cover. Formerly made of wood. With the Fire Grate, one of the two required elements of an established BWCAW campsite. ...
  • A multi-stall outhouse with partitions between them.
  • Military term for toilet facility usually consisting of a communal space with multiple seats
  • Military term for any type of toilet facility. At the 4077th, the latrine is essentially an outhouse that accommodates multiple users.
  • A latrine (from Latin lavatrina a privy) is a structure (usually small, holding a single person, and freestanding) for defecation and urination. (source)
  • Lavatory, privy or urinal, wash room