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phonebox

phonebox 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 phonebox

pluralphoneboxes

Origin of phonebox

From phone + box.

Questions about phonebox

What is phonebox the alternative spelling of?
Phonebox is the alternative spelling of phone box.

Words near phonebox in the dictionary

  1. phonebanks
  2. phonebook
  3. phonebooks
  4. phonebooth
  5. phonebooths
  6. phonebox
  7. phoneboxes
  8. phonecall
  9. phonecalls
  10. phonecam
  11. phonecams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phonebox (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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