booth
//buːð//
Forms
- Plural
- booths
Definitions
1.A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- Where's the nearest telephone booth?
2.An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
- Where's the nearest telephone booth?
3.An enclosure for keeping animals.
- Where's the nearest telephone booth?
4.A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- Where's the nearest telephone booth?
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4714
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.
Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.