Noun: commode
| Singular | commode |
| Plural | commodes |
Sample Sentences
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Changing bandages and emptying the commode doesn’t exactly create a sexy environment, but we never talk about doctors’ appointments or heart problems when we’re in our room – we preserve that little bit of space for ourselves. [2025 October 26, Olivia Ladanyi, quoting Zach, “This is how we do it: ‘When his grandma heard us having sex, she asked if we’d been “having a fun dance” upstairs’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. […] You nuzzle your Noſes into their Hoods and Commodes, […] [1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14:]
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Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect,
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Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck. [1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants:]
Nouns inflected like commode
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo. See: French Nouns '
commode'.