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telephone booths

telephone booths is the plural of telephone booth.

Meaning of telephone booth

Noun

telephone booth (plural telephone booths)

  1. 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

Questions about telephone booths

What is telephone booths the plural of?
Telephone booths is the plural of telephone booth.

Words near telephone booths in the dictionary

  1. telephone answering machine
  2. telephone answering machines
  3. telephone book
  4. telephone books
  5. telephone booth
  6. telephone booths
  7. telephone box
  8. telephone boxes
  9. telephone call
  10. telephone calls
  11. telephone card

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