telephone booth
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telephone booth
noun telephone booths
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A small enclosure housing a public telephone.
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 b
Similar: phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk
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noun small enclosure housing a public telephone
| Español | cabina telefónica |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 공중전화 박스 gongjungjeonhwa bakseu, 공중전화 부스 gongjungjeonhwa buseu |
| 日本語 | 電話ボックス denwa bokkusu, 電話ブース denwa būsu |
| 中文 | 電話亭 /电话亭 diànhuàtíng |
| हिन्दी | टेलिफ़ोन बूथ ṭelifon būth, फ़ोन बूथ fon būth |
| Kiswahili | kibanda cha simu |
| Português | cabine telefônica |
| Français | cabine téléphonique, taxiphone |
| Deutsch | Telefonzelle |
| Italiano | cabina telefonica |
| Ελληνικά | τηλεφωνικός θάλαμος tilefonikós thálamos |
| Română | cabină telefonică |
| Русский | телефо́нная бу́дка telefónnaja búdka, телефо́н-автома́т telefón-avtomát |
| Tiếng Việt | buồng điện thoại |
| العربية | كَابِينَةُ هَاتِف kābīnatu hātif, كُشْك هَاتِف kušk hātif |
| עברית | תָּא טֶלֶפוֹן ta télefon |
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title = {telephone booth},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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