noun
definition
An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
definition
Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
definition
A chamber pot.
Examples of latrines in a Sentence
WaterAid can show people how to build simple pit latrines, or large composting latrines for a whole school, from locally available materials.
Ground floor owners were also being requested to construct latrines for use of the passersby.
Major investment was committed to rehabilitating school buildings, restoring water supplies and installing latrines.
And also I will have achieved my target of building 400 communal latrines and bathing shelters.
It is also easy to clean latrines with sanitary platforms.
The children are forbidden to use the communal latrines, for fear that they will fall in.
In the Terai tubewells and pour flush latrines are more common.
Some 600 million city dwellers are today without adequate shelter and over 400 million do not have access to the simplest latrines.
We are looking forward to having our own latrines.
Just 9.7 per cent use modern flush toilets or " improved " pit latrines.
Working together, villagers cleaned and fenced nine boreholes, cleared and opened drainage areas, and constructed new household pit latrines.
Construction, use and maintenance of pit latrines and refuse pit latrines and refuse pits; environmental hygiene.
The fort contains the only visible example of a Roman hospital in Britain and superbly preserved latrines and flush system.
They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines.
Nearly 3000 latrines have been constructed begun rehabilitating existing piped water systems in Machinga District.
The field latrines were located by a small brook.
The complete absence of latrines was responsible for the ground being fouled and for the outbreak of bacillary dysentery.