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phone box

phone box noun: a telephone 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
alternative formphonebox

Questions about phone box

What does phone box mean?
Phone box means a telephone box.
What part of speech is phone box?
Phone box is a noun.
What is the plural of phone box?
The plural of phone box is phone boxes.

Words near phone box in the dictionary

  1. phone banks
  2. phone book
  3. phone books
  4. phone booth
  5. phone booths
  6. phone box
  7. phone boxes
  8. phone call
  9. phone calls
  10. phone card
  11. phone cards

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