phone box

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Related topics: Telephone, telegraph

ˈphone box noun [countable] British English   TCTa small structure that is partly or completely enclosed, containing a public telephone 〔公用〕电话亭

Examples from the Corpus

phone box• Charlie'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box.• I leapt out of the car into a phone box, and rang through with an apology.• Miracle: a phone box empty.• Despite shock and scratches, she walked to a phone box to call help.• She spotted the out-of-order phone box and drew up beside it.• I rang his sister from a public phone box.• She takes it and makes for the phone box.

ˈphone box nounChineseSyllable  

that a is enclosed, or small Corpus containing partly completely structure

phone box
ˈphone box noun [countable] British English

a small structure that is partly or completely enclosed, containing a public telephone

phone boxBrE /ˈfəʊn bɒks/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfoʊn bɑːks/ 🔊 (also ˈtelephone box, ˈtelephone kiosk, ˈcall box) (all BrE) nouna small unit with walls and a roof, containing a public telephone, in the street, etc. （全封闭的）公用电话亭，电话间