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phone-box

phone-box is the alternative spelling of phone box.

Meaning of phone box

Noun

phone box (plural phone boxes)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, UK) A telephone box
    • But sitting, somewhat incongruously, at the station entrance is a working Telstra phone box.2025 January 18, Rosemary Murphy, Alistair Bates, ABC News
  2. (figuratively) A very small space.

Forms of phone-box

pluralphone-boxes

Questions about phone-box

What is phone-box the alternative spelling of?
Phone-box is the alternative spelling of phone box.

Words near phone-box in the dictionary

  1. phone zombies
  2. phone-bank
  3. phone-banked
  4. phone-banking
  5. phone-banks
  6. phone-box
  7. phone-boxes
  8. phone-free
  9. phone-in
  10. phone-in show
  11. phone-in shows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phone-box (page history and authors); phone box (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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