booth

Meaning

  1. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  2. (dated) A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
  3. A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
  4. An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
  5. An enclosure for keeping animals.
  6. (slang) A recording studio.

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/buːð/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.

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