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 (din⁶ waa^6-2 ting⁴), 电话亭 (din⁶waa⁶-²ting⁴)

  Mandarin: 電話亭／电话亭 (zh) (diànhuàtíng), 电话亭 (zh) (diànhuàtíng)

  Min Nan: 電話亭／电话亭, 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
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• 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• telephone booth, phone booth, phone box, telephone box, telephone kiosk at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.