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telephone box

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Telephone, telegraph
ldoce_184_bˈtelephone ˌbox British English, telephone booth American English noun [countable]  TCTa very small building in a street where there is a telephone that the public can use 公用电话亭[]5  See picture of telephone box BrE 【英】/telephone booth AmE 【美】公用电话亭
Examples from the Corpus
telephone boxOne broker was found to be operating from a telephone box at Heathrow airport.Local government could meet in a telephone box because function is not important.The headmaster pointed out the green telephone box at Fangdale Beck a tourist attraction even then.On the way back, she made me wait on the bench outside the telephone box.And that phone call ... Part of it was overheard by one of the village ladies waiting just outside the telephone box.The telephone box on the street corner - it is out of order.
ˈtelephone ˌbox nounChineseSyllable
Corpus a very street a building is in there small where


telephone box
ˈtelephone ˌbox British English, telephone booth American English noun [countable]
a very small building in a street where there is a telephone that the public can use


telephone boxBrE /ˈtelɪfəʊn bɒks/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtelɪfoʊn bɑːks/ 🔊 noun (BrE) = phone box