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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small, often enclosed compartment, usually accommodating only one person: a voting booth.
  2. n. A small enclosed compartment with a window, used to separate the occupant from others: a ticket booth.
  3. n. A seating area in a restaurant with a table and seats whose high backs serve as partitions.
  4. n. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A temporary structure or dwelling made of boards, boughs of trees, or other slight materials, or of canvas, as a tent.
  2. n. Specifically A stall for the sale of goods or refreshments at a fair or market, for showmen's and jugglers' exhibitions, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  2. n. An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
  2. n. A covered stall or other temporary structure in a fair, or market, or at a polling place.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. a small structure designed for the use of one person performing a special activity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches
  2. n. a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
  3. n. United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)
  4. n. small area set off by walls for special use

Etymologies

  1. From Old Norse búð (compare Scots buth). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English bothe, of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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