Meanings
nountelephone booth (plural telephone booths)
plural telephone booths
- A small enclosure housing a public telephone.
1 more example
Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into a public telephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write down the address—and would be back before ten o'clock.
1924 July, John Buchan, “The House in Gospel Oak”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 85Synonyms: phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA small enclosure housing a public telephone.
More synonyms by meaning
nounbooth for using a telephone
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans telefoonhokkie, tiekieboks
- telefoonhokkiesmall enclosure housing a public telephone
- tiekiebokssmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Arabic كَابِينَةُ هَاتِف, كُشْك هَاتِف
- كَابِينَةُ هَاتِف (kābīnatu hātif)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- كُشْك هَاتِف (kušk hātif)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Bengali টেলিফোন স্টল, টেলিফোন বুথ
- টেলিফোন স্টল (ṭeliphōn sṭol)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- টেলিফোন বুথ (ṭeliphōn buth)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Bulgarian телефо́нна бу́дка
- телефо́нна бу́дка (telefónna búdka)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Catalan cabina telefònica
- cabina telefònicasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Chinese Cantonese 電話亭 /电话亭
- 電話亭 /电话亭small enclosure housing a public telephone
Chinese Mandarin 電話亭 /电话亭
- 電話亭 /电话亭 (diànhuàtíng)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Czech telefonní budka
- telefonní budkasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Danish telefonboks
- telefonbokssmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Dutch telefooncel
- telefooncelsmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Esperanto telefonbudo
- telefonbudosmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Estonian telefoniputka
- telefoniputkasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Finnish puhelinkioski, puhelinkoppi
- puhelinkioskismall enclosure housing a public telephone
- puhelinkoppismall enclosure housing a public telephone
French cabine téléphonique, taxiphone
- cabine téléphoniquesmall enclosure housing a public telephone
- taxiphonesmall enclosure housing a public telephone
German Telefonzelle, Telefonkabine
- Telefonzellesmall enclosure housing a public telephone
- Telefonkabinesmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Greek τηλεφωνικός θάλαμος
- τηλεφωνικός θάλαμος (tilefonikós thálamos)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Hebrew תָּא טֶלֶפוֹן
- תָּא טֶלֶפוֹן (ta télefon)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Hindi टेलिफ़ोन बूथ, फ़ोन बूथ
- टेलिफ़ोन बूथ (ṭelifon būth)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- फ़ोन बूथ (fon būth)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Hungarian telefonfülke
- telefonfülkesmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Icelandic símaklefi
- símaklefismall enclosure housing a public telephone
Indonesian bilik telepon
- bilik teleponsmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Irish bosca teileafóin
- bosca teileafóinsmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Italian cabina telefonica
- cabina telefonicasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Japanese 電話ボックス, 電話ブース
- 電話ボックス (denwa bokkusu)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- 電話ブース (denwa būsu)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Korean 공중전화 박스, 공중전화 부스
- 공중전화 박스 (gongjungjeonhwa bakseu)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- 공중전화 부스 (gongjungjeonhwa buseu)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Latvian telefona būdiņa, telefona kabīne
- telefona būdiņasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
- telefona kabīnesmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Lithuanian telefono būdelė
- telefono būdelėsmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Malay pondok telefon
- pondok telefonsmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Norwegian Bokmål telefonkiosk, kiosk
- telefonkiosksmall enclosure housing a public telephone
- kiosksmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Polish budka telefoniczna
- budka telefonicznasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Portuguese cabine telefônica
- cabine telefônicasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Romanian cabină telefonică
- cabină telefonicăsmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Russian телефо́нная бу́дка, телефо́н-автома́т
- телефо́нная бу́дка (telefónnaja búdka)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- телефо́н-автома́т (telefón-avtomát)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Scottish Gaelic bocsa-fòn
- bocsa-fònsmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Slovak telefónna búdka
- telefónna búdkasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Spanish cabina telefónica
- cabina telefónicasmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Swahili kibanda cha simu
- kibanda cha simusmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Swedish telefonkiosk
- telefonkiosksmall enclosure housing a public telephone
Thai ตู้โทรศัพท์
- ตู้โทรศัพท์ (dtûu-too-rá-sàp)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Turkish telefon kulübesi
- telefon kulübesismall enclosure housing a public telephone
Ukrainian телефо́нна бу́дка, телефо́н-автома́т
- телефо́нна бу́дка (telefónna búdka)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- телефо́н-автома́т (telefón-avtomát)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Urdu ٹیلی فون بُوتھ, فون بُوتھ
- ٹیلی فون بُوتھ (ṭelī fon būth)small enclosure housing a public telephone
- فون بُوتھ (fon būth)small enclosure housing a public telephone
Vietnamese buồng điện thoại
- buồng điện thoạismall enclosure housing a public telephone
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