playbox

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noun

A box for storing playthings; a toybox.

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Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounplaybox (plural playboxes)

plural playboxes

  1. A box for storing playthings; a toybox.

    These paper and print designs may be used to decorate nursery playboxes[…]

    1947, Viola Hening, Fun with scraps, page 126
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    […] she brought down in the towel-covered clothes-basket, on the wheel-barrow, […] a playbox with a secret drawer […]

    1915, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Postgate

    That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of them were sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and playboxes piled up round them. They were, in fact, on their way back to school.

    1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school)

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Origin

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APA

playbox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playbox

MLA

“playbox.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playbox. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “playbox,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playbox.

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