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beeth

beeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of be.

beeth is the plural of booth.

Meaning of be

Verb

be (highly irregular—See conjugation table)

  1. (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
    • The dog was saved by the boy.
  2. Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
    • The woman is walking.
  3. Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
    • I am to leave tomorrow.
  4. Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
    • He is finished.
  5. (Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary, African-American Vernacular) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
    • Women be shoppin’! You cannot stop a woman from shoppin’!1996, David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Tom Shadyac and Steve Oedekerk, screenplay of The Nutty Professor
  6. (with-dummy-subject) To exist.
    • There is just one woman in town who can help us.

See all 25 meanings of be

Meaning of booth

Noun

booth (plural booths or (nonstandard, chiefly humorous) beeth)

  1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  2. (dated) A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
    • When Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and...1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 41
  3. A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
  4. An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
    • Sitting in one of the booths (with table and comfy seats) in the open plan ground floor reception, Network Rail Business Change Manager Sarah Newman explains how NR had been eyeing up the building in late 2024, with work starting on site in August 2025.2025 December 24, Andy Comfort, “Signalling a change in training”, in RAIL, number 1051, page 28
  5. An enclosure for keeping animals.
  6. (slang) A recording studio.

See all 12 meanings of booth

Synonyms of beeth

Origin of beeth

From Middle English bith, from Old English biþ. See be + -eth.

Pluralization of booth after the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose → geese, tooth → teeth and foot → feet. See also the similarly formed shoop, meant as a singular for sheep, and meese (a plural for moose).

Questions about beeth

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Beeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of be.

Words near beeth in the dictionary

  1. beetels
  2. Beetewk
  3. Beetewks
  4. beetflies
  5. beetfly
  6. beeth
  7. Beetham
  8. Beethams
  9. Beethoven
  10. Beethovenesque
  11. Beethovenian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beeth (page history and authors); be (page history and authors); booth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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