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shoebox

shoebox noun: the box in which shoes are sold.

Noun

shoebox (plural shoeboxes)

  1. The box in which shoes are sold.
    • In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) A small, cramped residence or similar space.
    • She wondered how come Ho had a garden when everyone she knew lived in shoeboxes.2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 249

shoebox meaning in Tamil

shoebox in Tamil

காலணிப் பெட்டி

Forms of shoebox

pluralshoeboxes

Plural of shoebox: shoeboxes

Origin of shoebox

From shoe + box.

Words formed from shoebox

Questions about shoebox

What does shoebox mean?
Shoebox means the box in which shoes are sold.
What is shoebox in Tamil?
Shoebox in Tamil is காலணிப் பெட்டி. See Shoebox meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shoebox?
Shoebox is a noun.
What is the plural of shoebox?
The plural of shoebox is shoeboxes.

Words near shoebox in the dictionary

  1. shoebites
  2. shoeblack
  3. shoeblacks
  4. shoebomber
  5. shoebombers
  6. shoebox
  7. shoeboxes
  8. shoeboxesful
  9. shoeboxful
  10. shoeboxfuls
  11. shoeboxlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoebox (page history and authors); shoebox (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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