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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

telephone box en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Australia, Ireland, UK) A small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone).
    • I remember riding my bike around Wilbur Street, and when I ran away from home at 10 I hid in the corner telephone box. 2013 March 19, Peter Roberts, The Age:

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Hypernyms

box

Relateds

police box

Synonyms

call box · telephone booth · telephone kiosk · phone box