Meanings
plural toyboxes
- A box for storing toys.
1 more example
A peculiar feeling it is that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill-range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toybox, the fair Town, where so many souls, as it were seen and yet unseen, are driving their multifarious traffic.
1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 104Synonyms: playbox
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA box for storing toys.
Origin
Translations
Finnish lelulaatikko
- lelulaatikkobox for storing toys
Spanish juguetero
- jugueterobox for storing toys
Cite this entry
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