booth
/buːð//buθ/
booth noun: a small stall for the display and sale of goods.
Noun
booth (plural booths or (nonstandard, chiefly humorous) beeth)
- A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- 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
- A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- 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
- An enclosure for keeping animals.
- A recording studio.
Proper noun capitalized: Booth
Booth
- A surname.
- Synonym of Boothferry, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
- Synonyms:
- Boothferry, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
- A hamlet north of Luddenden, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0427).
- An unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama, United States.
- An extinct town in Pike County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States.
booth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
booth in Hindi
- a small stall for the display and sale of goods
- खोखा khokhā, गुमटी gumṭī
booth in Tamil
- கூண்டு, கூடாரம், தனியறை, சவுக்கை, சாவடி, அடைவிடம்
booth in Bengali
- চালাঘর, অস্থায়ী কুটীর
booth in Malayalam
- താത്കാലികമായി കെട്ടിയുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന പുര, പന്തൽ
More languagesFewer languages
- booth in Kannada
- ಗೂಡು, ಗೂಡಂಗಡಿ
- booth in Sanskrit
- पण्य páṇya
- booth in Arabic
- كُشْك kušk, حُجَيْرَة ḥujayra, كَابِينَة kābīna
- booth in Malay
- gerai, reruai, pondok, petak
- booth in Indonesian
- gerai, stan, bilik
- booth in Vietnamese
- bốt, buồng
Examples of booth in a sentence
- The square was filled with booths, with vendors offering their wares.
- I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
- The contestant was placed in a soundproof booth so he could not receive help from the audience.
Synonyms of booth
Forms of booth
| plural | booths |
|---|---|
| plural (nonstandard, humorous) | beeth |
Origin of booth
Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.
Words formed from booth
- booth babe
- boother
- boothette
- boothless
- boothlike
- boothman
- boothmate
- bothy
- buddy booth
- confession booth
- control booth
- forebooth
- kissing booth
- phone booth
- photo booth
- polling booth
- recording booth
- sound booth
- suicide booth
- telebooth
- telephone booth
- ticket booth
- ticketbooth
- toll booth
- voting booth
- Boothian
- lemniscate of Booth
- oval of Booth
Phrases with booth
Words that rhyme with booth
Questions about booth
- What does booth mean?
- Booth means a small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- What is booth in Hindi?
- Booth in Hindi is खोखा (khokhā), गुमटी (gumṭī). See Booth meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is booth?
- Booth can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce booth?
- Booth is pronounced /buːð/ (UK).
- What is the plural of booth?
- The plural of booth is booths.
Words near booth in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: booth (page history and authors); Booth (page history and authors); booth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); booth (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); booth (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); booth (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पण्य (Sanskrit) (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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