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

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

He towed in dilapidated cars and installed an old telephone booth.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

She figured that he must have stopped at a nearby drugstore to use the telephone booth when I later told her that Malcolm X had telephoned me upstate at about 3:30 that afternoon.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey