Dictionary Definition
booth
Noun
1 a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by
two high-backed benches
3 United States actor and assassin of President
Lincoln (1838-1865) [syn: John
Wilkes Booth]
4 a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or
entertainment
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
Translations
A small stall for the display and sale of goods
- Finnish: koju
- German: Stand , Messestand
An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one
standing person
- Finnish: koppi
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Booth may refer to:
- Isolation booth, device used to prevent a person or people from seeing or hearing certain events
- Photo booth, vending machine or modern kiosk which contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor
- Voting booth, where voters attend to cast their ballot in an election as part of the voting process in a democracy or republic
- Telephone booth, small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience
- Ticket booth, place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue
- Toll booth, road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use
- Food booth, a temporary structure from which food is sold to the general public.
- Agony booth, a fictional device in the Star Trek universe
- Suicide booth, a fictional machine in the animated series Futurama
- Phone Booth, a 2002 movie with Kiefer Sutherland
- Booth, a play by Austin Pendleton
- Booth Savage, Canadian actor
- Seeley Booth, a character from tv show Bones
- Booth, East Riding of Yorkshire, a small village near Goole.
- Booth, Texas
- Control booth, the area of the theater designated for the operation of technical equipment.
In other fields:
- John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
- Booth babe, person hired to help increase awareness about a product or service during an industry conference or trade show
- Booth Gardner, American politician
- Booth House, prominent heritage building in downtown Ottawa
- Booth Island, rugged, Y-shaped island
- Booth Tarkington, American writer
- Booth's multiplication algorithm, algorithm invented by Andrew D. Booth
- Taylor Booth, a mathematician specialist of automata theory
See also
booth in German: Booth
booth in French: Booth
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Nissen hut, Quonset hut, box, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, compartment, crib, crypt, cubicle, enclosed space,
gatehouse, hold, hole, hollow, hut, hutch, kiosk, lean-to, manger, news kiosk, newsstand, outbuilding, outhouse, pavilion, pew, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, stall, stand, tollbooth, tollhouse, vault