Definitions for commode

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commode com·mode

Spelling: [kuh-mohd]

IPA: /kəˈmoʊd/

Commode is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in commode (cdemmoo).

Definitions for commode

noun

1. a low cabinet or similar piece of furniture, often highly ornamental, containing drawers or shelves.
2. a stand or cupboard containing a chamber pot or washbasin.
3. toilet (def 1).
4. a portable toilet, especially one on a chairlike frame with wheels, as for an invalid.
5. an elaborate headdress consisting chiefly of a high framework decorated with lace, ribbons, etc., worn perched on top of the hair by women in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Origin of commode

1680-90; French Latin commodus convenient, equivalent to com- com- + modus mode¹

Examples for commode

He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked.

They visited my room, and searched my commode and my trunks.

The imperial N may be seen on the corners of the console tables and on the commode.

The commode is decorated with gilt ornaments worth a thousand pistoles.

In that relationship, the lower-class king of his dingy domain is enthroned atop a commode and uses a toilet brush as a scepter.

We can see her commode, her top-not, and her fontage, for she wears no rayonné.

In a drawer of this commode yellow soap and a comb and brush.

Again the old woman began to bustle about, and to open the drawers of her commode.

He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to make the least noise.

She caught sight of herself in an old mirror, which stood upon a commode.