telephone box

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English

A traditional British red telephone box.

Noun

telephone box (plural telephone boxes)

(British and Ireland) A small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone).
Synonyms: phone box, telephone booth, telephone kiosk, call box

Hypernyms

box

Translations

telephone booth — see telephone booth

See also

police box

Further reading

“telephone box”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
telephone booth, phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk at Google Ngram Viewer

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