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telephone booth

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A small enclosure housing a public telephone.

Equivalents

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Examples

“Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into a public telephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write⟳ down the address—and would be back before ten o'clock.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

telephone box telephone call telephone card telephone conference telephone desk telephone directory

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