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   booth

   /buːð/

   noun

   • 1. a small temporary tent or structure at a market, fair, or exhibition, used for selling goods, providing information, or staging shows. Similar stallstandkiosktrading postcountertable
   • ▪ a small room where a vendor sits separated from customers by a window: "a ticket booth"
   • 2. an 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" Similar cubiclekioskboxcompartmentenclosurecupboardcarrelcubbyholecabinhutalcovebayrecess
   • ▪ a polling station: Indian "check the voter list at the local booth or election office"
   • 3. a 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"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘temporary dwelling or shelter’): from Old Norse buth, based on búa ‘dwell’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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