play-box

1. 1.

   a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school)

   Synonymsplaybox

   Broaderbox

   United Kingdom

Questions about play-box

What does play-box mean?

play-box means "a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school)".

How many syllables are in play-box?

play-box has 2 syllables: play--box. The stress falls on "play-".

What is another word for play-box?

Close synonyms include playbox. 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 play-box a common word?

play-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.