noun

• 1A small temporary tent or structure at a market, fair, or exhibition, used for selling goods, providing information, or staging shows.

  ‘They set up temporary information booths at every village.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The market opened 100 booths selling South Korean clothes on 2,600 square meters of floor last August.’
  • ‘The exhibition booths show off everything from jewellery to furniture, from paintings to gourmet delicacies, from beauty and aromatherapy products to sculpture.’
  • ‘The Department of Agriculture and Food will also have information booths at its stand at the National Ploughing Championships at the end of the month near Tullow in Co Carlow.’
  • ‘Drums sound from nearby powwow dancing, while craftsmen cut deals at a string of booths selling everything from T-shirts to jewelry.’
  • ‘The street will then be set up as a street fair, with food stalls, entertainment booths, exhibitions, and cultural shows.’
  • ‘We walked around for a little while, staring at booths and small, temporary shops selling pieces of jewelry and lights that blinked.’
  • ‘The Biennial is not the standard ‘big tent’ art show with elaborate exhibition booths and a short but hectic run in a convention center or on a pier.’
  • ‘Crisis management groups have also been instructed to establish helpline and information booths at entry points to quake-hit areas for better coordination of relief work.’
  • ‘It is also a sort of fair with booths and stands offering food and tea, jewelry and wood, and stalls serving beer.’
  • ‘My patio hung over a medium sized street that was lined with shops and booths that sold fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers.’
  • ‘In addition to the informative show, the fashion fair included display booths for attendees to browse and pick-up useful information and tips about healthy lifestyles.’
  • ‘Over 300 organizations and businesses set up snazzy booths to sell wares, distribute information and collect signatures for various petitions.’
  • ‘On the flat lawn inside the oval of the track several tents, booths and pavilions had been erected to house the exhibits and shade the contests and performances.’
  • ‘The popular, colorful and exciting festival features booths selling food, handicrafts, fashion and accessories of Asian-Pacific countries.’
  • ‘People buying things from nearby stores were offered a chance to verify the weight of their purchases, using electronic weighing machines in the temporary booths put up by the roadside.’
  • ‘We'd also like volunteers to help out with taking donations and manning the information booths.’
  • ‘More than 35 Thai restaurants had set up and sold their specialities, and there were booths selling a wide variety of Thai handicrafts and food products.’
  • ‘The members had set up booths where they sold handicrafts, fashion accessories and food from their respective countries.’

  Synonyms

  stall, stand, kiosk, trading post

  View synonyms

  1. 1.1A small room where a vendor sits separated from customers by a window.
     ‘a ticket booth’
     More example sentences

     • ‘The transfer station has a human ticket vendor whose booth is adorned with Tri-Rail schedules and announcements.’
     • ‘She pulled up to the entrance gate and rolled down her window to the ticket booth.’
     • ‘Only one employee could fit in the store because it was a Fotomat, one of those freestanding film-developing booths with a drive-up window.’
     • ‘One warm night I wandered downtown to the half price theatre ticket booth.’
     • ‘After the war, he worked for the New York Mass Transit Authority, selling tokens from booths in various subway stations.’
     • ‘Sitting inside a little booth in the middle of a toll road for seven hours a day sounds rather unpleasant, if not downright tortuous, but some people enjoy it.’
     • ‘A woman behind an enclosed booth said the club had no comment to make.’

• 2An enclosure or compartment that allows privacy or seclusion, for example when voting, broadcasting or recording sound, or making a phone call.

  ‘he installed a soundproof booth for private phone calls’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In the middle of the Mojave Desert is a phone booth housing the sole telephone for 16 miles in any direction.’
  • ‘Wi-fi providers have targeted a growing number of potential venues within which to establish access points, including hotels, airports, phone booths and restaurants.’
  • ‘I phoned Henning late that night in a phone booth near the restaurant.’
  • ‘These homemade announcements are mostly affixed to telephone poles, but garbage bins, phone booths and newspaper boxes are also info-rich urban texts.’
  • ‘He said he believed most voters would not refuse to vote simply because of a ban on mobile phones in booths.’
  • ‘He said outlying areas had booths with massive No votes.’
  • ‘She picked up over 70 percent of the vote in booths in Paddington, Surry Hills and Darlinghurst.’
  • ‘The Internet telephony booths will be a boon mainly to the non PC-user who is not comfortable with headphones.’
  • ‘But the numbers voting at such booths are so small that it's not clear how much effect the change will have.’
  • ‘They were getting returns with up to 25 per cent of the votes invalid in some booths.’
  • ‘When voting at a polling booth, there are officials present who ensure that only the person eligible to vote enters the booth to do so.’
  • ‘This is an important question because democracy is not just going into a booth to cast a vote on the basis of some campaign slogans.’
  • ‘Step inside the booth, in total privacy, and let the fine mist of tanning spray breeze over your entire body.’
  • ‘By comparison, advertising on 200 phone booths during that period would have cost over $400,000.’
  • ‘At other booths, the photographers allowed participants to reject their first photo in favor of a more flattering one.’
  • ‘Betting is currently allowed at official booths at dog and horse racing tracks, and some bookmakers are authorized to place odds on some sports events.’
  • ‘He looked around cautiously to see if anyone could overhear, but the booths were designed for privacy.’
  • ‘The indoor booth allowed for a controlled testing environment.’
  • ‘After each performance Camille's dressing room becomes a confession booth for each character.’
  • ‘In order to show a Cinerama film, you had to completely overhaul a movie theater, tearing out dozens of seats on the ground floor to make room for three projection booths.’

  Synonyms

  cubicle, kiosk, box, compartment, enclosure, cupboard, carrel, cubbyhole

  View synonyms

  1. 2.1Indian A polling place.
     More example sentences

     • ‘check the voter list at the local booth or election office’

• 3A type of seating, typically in a restaurant or bar, consisting of two high-backed benches with a table between them.

  ‘they sat down in a booth and waited for a waiter to come over’

  More example sentences

  • ‘At restaurants, ask for a booth or side table where you can sit close to the wall when nursing.’
  • ‘The period decor emphasises dark oak and marble-topped tables, and along one side there are individual booths with leather benches.’
  • ‘Tables and comfortable booths cover the floor of the small rectangular restaurant.’
  • ‘The other fellow, the older of the two, sat down at a booth and got his coffee.’
  • ‘While the bouncy red booths and sparkly vinyl tables scream 1950s, the apple martini walls and track lighting let you know that this is no time warp.’
  • ‘There were more than twenty booths and tables in the place and all of them were full.’
  • ‘There are 22 booths and four tables; most are in use.’
  • ‘There was a bar and about twenty booths and tables.’
  • ‘Soon, food is being brought out to booths and tables.’
  • ‘The wooden tables and booths seem like an afterthought in the design, something to separate the massive bar from the slightly raised stage.’
  • ‘The bar they sat in, the Sushi and Bullets Diner, was dimly lit with several booths and tables surrounding a low stage.’
  • ‘Save for one row of booths with benches positioned awkwardly low, it's all comfort and reassurance.’
  • ‘The tables and booths had been replaced with couches and big comfy chairs.’
  • ‘The tables in the booths had minibars inside them so we never had to move.’
  • ‘She was marching away from him, down between the rows of booths and tables and straight for the door.’
  • ‘There were wooden booths and tables, and bright lights hung across the high ceiling.’
  • ‘It had a fifties poodle-skirt feel with a classic soda bar and round red tables and booths.’
  • ‘The restaurant consisted of a bar with rickety stools, and a few tables with booths.’
  • ‘Tables and booths were scattered in the dining area on either side of a salad bar.’
  • ‘It's sort of like a an old-fashioned train dining car with booths along the windows and a row of small tables down the center.’