Meanings
plural playboxes
- 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 1262 more examples
[…] she brought down in the towel-covered clothes-basket, on the wheel-barrow, […] a playbox with a secret drawer […]
1915, Rudyard Kipling, Mary PostgateThat 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)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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playbox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/playbox
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