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

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Etymology

Origin of telephone booth

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

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telephone booth

In nearby Altadena, another wind phone sits in a wooden framed telephone booth with vertical glass windows at the end of a brick walkway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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

The lander, named Odysseus and a bit bigger than a telephone booth, arrived in the south polar region of the moon at 6:23 p.m.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 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

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