Booth

booth
    n 1: a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-
         backed benches
    2: small area set off by walls for special use [syn: {booth},
       {cubicle}, {stall}, {kiosk}]
    3: United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln
       (1838-1865) [syn: {Booth}, {John Wilkes Booth}]
    4: a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
    

Booth \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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A covered stall or other temporary structure in a fair, or
      market, or at a polling place.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. 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.
      [PJC]

   4. a small structure designed for the use of one person
      performing a special activity; as, a telephone booth; a
      highway toll booth; a projection booth; a guard booth.
      [PJC]
    

Booth
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.
    

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

    

BOOTH

General William, founder of a vast army which never
fought a battle, made a retreat, or surrendered.  Conducted
campaigns in Great Britain and the United States, with brass
bands and collection devises.  The army later became a
suffragette institution when women were admitted as recruits,
and placed as sentries to guard the Christmas-Easter collection
forts. Publication:  War Cry.  Recreation:  Reviewing troopers
and troopesses.