MEANING
1. A chair or cabinet incorporating a chamber pot or toilet container.
2. A chest of drawers, often decorative and associated with historical furniture.
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Words that belong together
- bedside commode
- commode chair
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A bedside commode stood behind the screen.
The nurse moved the commode chair closer.
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- commode
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Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular commode; plural commodes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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