telephone box

English

A traditional British red telephone box.

Noun

telephone box (plural telephone boxes)

1. (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 the Google Books Ngram Viewer.