telephone booth

telephone booth

English

Noun

telephone booth (plural telephone booths)

1. A small enclosure housing a public telephone.

Synonyms

• phone booth
• phone box
• telephone box
• telephone kiosk

Translations

a small enclosure housing a public telephone

Afrikaans: telefoonhokkie, tiekieboks Bulgarian: телефонна будка f (telefonna budka) Catalan: cabina telefònica f Chinese: Cantonese: 電話亭, 电话亭 (din⁶waa⁶-²ting⁴) Mandarin: 電話亭／电话亭 (zh) (diànhuàtíng) Min Nan: 電話亭, 电话亭 (tiān-ōe-têng) Czech: telefonní budka f Danish: telefonboks (da) c Dutch: telefooncel (nl) f Esperanto: telefonbudo Estonian: telefoniputka Finnish: puhelinkioski (fi), puhelinkoppi (fi) French: cabine téléphonique (fr) f, taxiphone (fr) m Galician: cabina de teléfono f German: Telefonzelle (de) f Hungarian: telefonfülke (hu) Icelandic: símaklefi (is) m Italian: cabina telefonica (it) f Japanese: 電話ボックス (ja) (denwa bokkusu), 電話ブース (denwa būsu) Macedonian: телефо́нска говорница f (telefónska govornica), говорница f (govornica) Manx: bwaane çhellvane m Norman: kiosque d'téléphône m Norwegian: Bokmål: telefonkiosk (no) m, kiosk m Polish: budka telefoniczna (pl) f Portuguese: cabine telefônica f Romanian: cabină telefonică f Romansch: cabina da telefon f Russian: телефо́нная бу́дка (ru) f (telefónnaja búdka), телефо́н-автома́т (ru) m (telefón-avtomát) Scottish Gaelic: bocsa-fòn m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: телефонска говорница f, телефонска кабина f Roman: telefonska govornica, telefonska kabina f Spanish: cabina telefónica f Swedish: telefonkiosk (sv) c Turkish: telefon kulübesi (tr)

See also

• police box

Further reading

• telephone booth at OneLook Dictionary Search
• telephone booth, phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk at Google Ngram Viewer