call box

Questions about call box

What does call box mean?

call box means "booth for using a telephone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for call box?

Close synonyms include telephone booth, phone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk, Post-Office box. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is call box a common word?

call box is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.