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

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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

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

Visitors to the studio, which looks like an old-fashioned telephone booth, can dial up stories recorded by locals.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2018

We finally got to the store and stood by the telephone booth having a Coke.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel