[syn: Booth, John Wilkes Booth]
4. a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Booth \Booth\ (b[=oo][th]), n. [OE. bothe; cf. Icel. b[=u][eth],
Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same
root as AS. b[=u]an to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem.
bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl.
bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.]
1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight
materials, for temporary occupation. --Camden.
[1913 Webster]
2. A covered stall or other temporary structure in a fair, or
market, or at a polling place.
[1913 Webster]
3. a partly enclosed area within a room for use of one or a
small number of people, such as one in a restaurant having
a table and seats, or one at an exhibition containing a
display of products from one organization.
[PJC]
4. a small structure designed for the use of one person
performing a special activity; as, a telephone booth; a
highway toll booth; a projection booth; a guard booth.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
booth
n 1: a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-
backed benches
2: small area set off by walls for special use [syn: booth,
cubicle, stall, kiosk]
3: United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln
(1838-1865) [syn: Booth, John Wilkes Booth]
4: a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "booth":
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
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Booth
a hut made of the branches of a tree. In such tabernacles Jacob
sojourned for a season at a place named from this circumstance
Succoth (Gen. 33:17). Booths were erected also at the feast of
Tabernacles (q.v.), Lev. 23:42, 43, which commemorated the abode
of the Israelites in the wilderness.