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toybox

toybox noun: a box for storing toys.

Noun

toybox (plural toyboxes)

  1. A box for storing toys.
    • A peculiar feeling it is that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill-range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toybox, the fair Town, where so many souls, as it were seen and yet unseen, are...1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 104
    Synonyms:
    playbox

Synonyms of toybox

Forms of toybox

pluraltoyboxes

Origin of toybox

From toy + box.

Questions about toybox

What does toybox mean?
Toybox means a box for storing toys.
What part of speech is toybox?
Toybox is a noun.
What is the plural of toybox?
The plural of toybox is toyboxes.

Words near toybox in the dictionary

  1. Toyah
  2. Toyama
  3. Toyas
  4. Toybob
  5. Toybobs
  6. toybox
  7. toyboxes
  8. toyboy
  9. toyboys
  10. toychest
  11. toychests

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