booth
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English
Etymology
From Middle English bothe, from either Old English bōþ or Old Norse bóð (compare Swedish bod) and/or the variant búð (> Scots buth), from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /buːθ/, (dated) /buːð/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /buːθ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːθ, -uːð
Noun
booth (plural booths)
- A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- (dated) A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
- 1922, E R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 41, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape , Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and inlaid with gold, and the crown of Witchland on his head. pages When Gro came to the Witches’ booths he found them guarded even as the Red Foliot had said, and the booths of them of Demonland in like manner. So went he into the royal booth where the King lay in state on a bier of spear-shafts, robed in his kingly robes over his armour that was painted black and inlaid with gold, and the crown of Witchland on his head.:
- A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
- An enclosure for keeping animals.
- (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.
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Translations
a small stall for the display and sale of goods
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an enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person
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an enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café
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