booth

«booth» in Mova's school dictionary: A small, partly closed place for one person or a small… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a booth, booths)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small, partly closed place for one person or a small group, such as a phone booth or voting booth. tree →

2) A small stall at a fair or market where things are sold or shown. tree →

3) A table in a restaurant with high-backed seats around it. tree →

4) A small room for a special job, such as a ticket booth or toll booth. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: photo booth, ticket booth, phone booth, voting booth, toll booth. At school fairs, booths sell cakes or games. In maths problems, a booth might sell tickets or snacks.

examples

• We sat in a booth at the diner. tree →
• The ticket booth opens at nine. tree →
• Our class ran a lemonade booth at the fair. tree →
• Dad paid at the toll booth on the motorway. tree →
• We took funny pictures in the photo booth. tree →
• People vote in a private booth. tree →
• A few miserable-looking wooden booths, for the accommodation of Dutch watermen, stood on the opposite shore. tree →

note

Pronounced with a «th» at the end (rhymes with smooth or tooth). Plural: booths. Phone booths are now rare because of mobile phones.

In the corpora

• A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.
• And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle.
• Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths;
• He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «booth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.