telephone booth

American  

noun

telephone booths plural

1. a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• telephone booths
  plural

Etymology

Origin of telephone booth

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

telephone booth

Wilber grabbed the notebook he carried around with his family’s information and tossed it the man, who headed straight to a telephone booth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

I was standing in a containment cage, a contraption smaller than a telephone booth made of steel and mesh wire.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

A UK-style red telephone booth sits on one corner, Norwegian flags festoon posts and staircases and a “Velkommen til Poulsbo!” mural and monstrous Viking invite day-trippers and weekend stays.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

If qubits get close enough together, Nadkishore explained, they can influence the behavior of their neighbors, almost like a crowd of people trying to squeeze themselves into a telephone booth.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024

"This was found in a telephone booth in the Luisenweg-Süderstrasse at nine o'clock in the morning."

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti