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toyboxes

toyboxes is the plural of toybox.

Meaning of toybox

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

Questions about toyboxes

What is toyboxes the plural of?
Toyboxes is the plural of toybox.

Words near toyboxes in the dictionary

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

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