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# booth

«booth» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small, partly closed place for one person or a small…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a booth, booths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small, partly closed place for one person or a small group, such as a phone booth or voting booth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#m1)

2) A small stall at a fair or market where things are sold or shown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#m2)

3) A table in a restaurant with high-backed seats around it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#m3)

4) A small room for a special job, such as a ticket booth or toll booth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: photo booth, ticket booth, phone booth, voting booth, toll booth. At school fairs, booths sell cakes or games. In maths problems, a booth might sell tickets or snacks.

### examples

- We sat in a booth at the diner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#x1)
- The ticket booth opens at nine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#x2)
- Our class ran a lemonade booth at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#x3)
- Dad paid at the toll booth on the motorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#x4)
- We took funny pictures in the photo booth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#x5)
- People vote in a private booth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#x6)
- A few miserable-looking wooden booths, for the accommodation of Dutch watermen, stood on the opposite shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/#x7)

### note

Pronounced with a «th» at the end (rhymes with smooth or tooth). Plural: booths. Phone booths are now rare because of mobile phones.

### In the corpora

- [A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/9/)
- [And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1050/)
- [Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.706/)
- [He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.688/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «booth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/booth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.