booth

plural booths · humorous nonstandard plural beeth

1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
2. datedA temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.

   1 more example

   When Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and inlaid with gold, and the crown of Witchland on his head.

   1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 41

3. A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
4. An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.

   Sitting in one of the booths (with table and comfy seats) in the open plan ground floor reception, Network Rail Business Change Manager Sarah Newman explains how NR had been eyeing up the building in late 2024, with work starting on site in August 2025.

   2025 December 24, Andy Comfort, “Signalling a change in training”, in RAIL, number 1051, page 28

5. An enclosure for keeping animals.
6. slangdancingA recording studio.

1. A surname.
2. A number of places:
   1. Synonym of Boothferry, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

      Synonyms: Boothferry, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

   2. A hamlet north of Luddenden, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0427).
   3. An unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama, United States.
   4. An extinct town in Pike County, Missouri, United States.
   5. An unincorporated community in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States.