booth
pronunciation
How to pronounce booth in British English:
UK [buːð]
How to pronounce booth in American English:
US [buːθ]
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- Noun:
- a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
Word Origin
- booth
- booth: [12] In common with a wide range of other English words, including bower and the -bour of neighbour, booth comes ultimately from the Germanic base *bū- ‘dwell’. From this source came the East Norse verb bóa ‘dwell’ (whose present participle produced English bond and the -band of husband); addition of the suffix -th produced the unrecorded noun bóth. ‘dwelling’, which came into Middle English as bōth.=> be, boor, bower, husband, neighbour
- booth (n.)
- mid-12c., from Old Danish boþ "temporary dwelling," from East Norse *boa "to dwell," from Proto-Germanic *bowan-, from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow" (see be). See also bound (adj.2). Compare German Bude "booth, stall," Middle Dutch boode, Lithuanian butas "house," Old Irish both "hut," Bohemian bouda, Polish buda, some probably borrowed from East Norse, some formed from the PIE root.
Example
- 1. Our cookies were finished and our booth was set .
- 2. Mr. bliss said the phones at his firm 's booth weren 't working , so traders relied on emergency lines provided by the exchange .
- 3. According to odorono company files at duke university , edna murphey 's odorono booth at the 1912 atlantic city exposition initially appeared to be another bust for the product .
- 4. " They pushed them away on baggage carts , " said aleksei spiridonov , who works at an auto rental booth a few yards from the site of the blast . " They were wheeling them out on whatever they could find . "
- 5. Our work is now displayed at many stores across atlantic canada , at the cruise ship booth located at the port of saint john .