BOOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Booth mean? 

• BOOTH (noun)
  The noun BOOTH has 4 senses:

1. a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

2. small area set off by walls for special use

3. United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)

4. a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment

  Familiarity information: BOOTH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("booth" is a kind of...):

table (a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small area set off by walls for special use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

booth; cubicle; kiosk; stall

Hypernyms ("booth" is a kind of...):

closet (a small private room for study or prayer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "booth"):

confessional (a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions)

polling booth (a temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to cast their votes)

prompt box; prompter's box (a booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage)

shower bath; shower stall (booth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom)

call box; phone booth; telephone booth; telephone box; telephone kiosk (booth for using a telephone)

tolbooth; tollbooth; tollhouse (a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls)

voting booth (a booth in which a person can cast a private vote)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Booth; John Wilkes Booth

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

assassin; assassinator; bravo (a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("booth" is a kind of...):

shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "booth"):

sales booth; stall; stand (a booth where articles are displayed for sale)

 Context examples 

I have seen a silversmith's booth there which would serve to buy either side of this street.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Places may contain sub-places (floor, room, booth, bed).

(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

There's a Booth boat for Para next Wednesday week, and if the Professor and you can work it, I think we should take it—what?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All round, the thousands of carriages and horses were dotted over the moor, and the slopes were gay with tents and booths.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am writing these last lines in the saloon of the Booth liner Francisca, and they will go back by the pilot to the keeping of Mr. McArdle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious voyage upon the Booth liner, nor will I tell of our week's stay at Para (save that I should wish to acknowledge the great kindness of the Pereira da Pinta Company in helping us to get together our equipment).

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)