telephone booth
telephone booth noun: a small enclosure housing a public telephone.
Noun
telephone booth (plural telephone booths)
- A small enclosure housing a public telephone.
- Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into a public telephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write down the address—and would...1924 July, John Buchan, “The House in Gospel Oak”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 85
- Synonyms:
- phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk
telephone booth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
telephone booth in Hindi
- small enclosure housing a public telephone
- टेलिफ़ोन बूथ ṭelifon būth, फ़ोन बूथ fon būth
telephone booth in Tamil
- தொலைபேசிச் சவுக்கை, தொலைபேசிச் சாவடி
telephone booth in Urdu
- small enclosure housing a public telephone
- ٹیلی فون بُوتھ ṭelī fon būth, فون بُوتھ fon būth
telephone booth in Bengali
- small enclosure housing a public telephone
- টেলিফোন স্টল ṭeliphōn sṭol, টেলিফোন বুথ ṭeliphōn buth
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- telephone booth in Arabic
- كَابِينَةُ هَاتِف kābīnatu hātif, كُشْك هَاتِف kušk hātif
- telephone booth in Malay
- pondok telefon
- telephone booth in Indonesian
- bilik telepon
- telephone booth in Thai
- ตู้โทรศัพท์ dtûu-too-rá-sàp
- telephone booth in Vietnamese
- buồng điện thoại
- telephone booth in Myanmar
- တယ်လီဖုန်းရုံ tailihpun:rum
Synonyms of telephone booth
Forms of telephone booth
| plural | telephone booths |
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Questions about telephone booth
- What does telephone booth mean?
- Telephone booth means a small enclosure housing a public telephone.
- What is telephone booth in Hindi?
- Telephone booth in Hindi is टेलिफ़ोन बूथ (ṭelifon būth), फ़ोन बूथ (fon būth). See Telephone booth meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is telephone booth?
- Telephone booth is a noun.
- What is the plural of telephone booth?
- The plural of telephone booth is telephone booths.
Words near telephone booth in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: telephone booth (page history and authors); telephone booth (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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