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Meaning of BOOTH

Pronunciation:  booth, booth

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  small area set off by walls for special use
  2. [n]  a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
  3. [n]  a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches
  4. [n]  American actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)
 
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 Synonyms: cubicle, John Wilkes Booth, kiosk, stall
 
 See Also: actor, assassin, assassinator, bravo, call box, closet, confessional, histrion, phone booth, player, polling booth, prompt box, prompter's box, role player, sales booth, shop, shower bath, shower stall, stand, store, table, telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk, thespian, tolbooth, tollbooth, tollhouse, voting booth

 

 

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Booth
A debut novel about the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. John Surratt, the elderly narrator, became friends with John Wilkes Booth as a young man and was drawn into the circle of conspirators who plotted the president`s death and met at the boardinghouse run by Surratt`s mother.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Booth\ (b[=oo][th]), n. [OE. bothe; cf. Icel. b[=u][eth],
Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same
root as AS. b[=u]an to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem.
bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl.
bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.]
1. A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight
   materials, for temporary occupation. --Camden.
2. A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or
   market, or at a polling place.
 
Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

a hut made of the branches of a tree. In such tabernacles Jacob sojourned for a season at a place named from this circumstance Succoth (Gen. 33:17). Booths were erected also at the feast of Tabernacles (q.v.), Lev. 23:42, 43, which commemorated the abode of the Israelites in the wilderness.

 
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 Related Terms: box, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, compartment, crib, crypt, cubicle, enclosed space, gatehouse, hold, hole, hollow, hut, hutch, kiosk, lean-to, manger, news kiosk, newsstand, Nissen hut, outbuilding, outhouse, pavilion, pew, Quonset hut, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, stall, stand, tollbooth, tollhouse, vault
 

 

 

 

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