phone box

noun

A telephone box

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Meanings

nounphone box (plural phone boxes)

plural phone boxes · alternative phonebox

  1. AustraliaIrelandUKA telephone box

    But sitting, somewhat incongruously, at the station entrance is a working Telstra phone box.

    2025 January 18, Rosemary Murphy, Alistair Bates, ABC News
  2. figurativelyA very small space.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
telephone boothtelephone box
Cite this entry
APA

phone box. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phone%20box

MLA

“phone box.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phone%20box. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “phone box,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phone%20box.

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