booth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small enclosed space just big enough for one person, used for a particular purpose.

   She stepped into the phone booth to make a call.

2. 2
   noun

   A seating area with a table between two high-backed benches, as in a café or diner.

   We sat in a quiet booth at the back of the restaurant.

3. 3
   noun

   A small stall or tent for selling or displaying goods, often at a fair or market.

   They ran a booth selling handmade jewellery at the fair.

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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