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telephone box

telephone box noun: a small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone).

telephone box: a small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone)
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Noun

telephone box (plural telephone boxes)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, UK) A small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone).
    • I remember riding my bike around Wilbur Street, and when I ran away from home at 10 I hid in the corner telephone box.2013 March 19, Peter Roberts, The Age

telephone box meaning in Tamil

telephone box in Tamil

தொலைபேசிக் கூண்டு

Synonyms of telephone box

Forms of telephone box

pluraltelephone boxes

Questions about telephone box

What does telephone box mean?
Telephone box means a small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone).
What is telephone box in Tamil?
Telephone box in Tamil is தொலைபேசிக் கூண்டு. See Telephone box meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is telephone box?
Telephone box is a noun.
What is the plural of telephone box?
The plural of telephone box is telephone boxes.

Words near telephone box in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telephone box (page history and authors); telephone box (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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