Meaning & use
ticket booth
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Meanings
nouncountable
A small kiosk or enclosed counter where tickets are sold, such as at a station, fairground or car park entrance.
Grammar: Countable: a ticket booth, three ticket booths.
Patterns
- at the ticket booth
- a ticket booth for something
We joined the line at the ticket booth near the entrance.
The ticket booth at the fair closes at nine.
She bought two tickets from the ticket booth outside the stadium.
nouncountable
A staffed window or small building at a toll road or parking structure where fees are collected.
Grammar: Countable and typically used with at: at the ticket booth.
Patterns
- pay at the ticket booth
Drivers took a ticket at the ticket booth before entering the parking garage.
A long queue formed at the highway ticket booth.
Word forms
| plural | ticket booths |
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Common combinations
- at the ticket booth
- I'll meet you at the ticket booth at noon.
- ticket booth attendant
- The ticket booth attendant checked our passes.
- line up at the ticket booth
- Visitors lined up at the ticket booth all morning.
- outside ticket booth
- The outside ticket booth closed when the rain started.
- buy from the ticket booth
- You can buy tickets from the ticket booth or online.
Synonyms and how they differ
- box office
- Box office is the usual term for a theater or cinema counter, and often a room indoors, while ticket booth suggests a small stand.
- ticket window
- Ticket window is the opening through which tickets are sold and focuses on the glass opening rather than the structure.
- kiosk
- Kiosk is a general word for any small stall selling things, so it does not necessarily sell tickets.
- ticket office
- Ticket office is a British term for a larger room, especially at railway stations.
Word family
Commonly confused: ticket booth or box office?
ticket booth vs box office
Box office usually refers to a theater's sales counter and also to how much money a film earns. Ticket booth is a small stand selling tickets outdoors or at entrances.
Practice
At the small county fair, visitors bought entry passes from a ___ by the gate.
Choose one answer.
A ticket booth is a small stand where tickets are sold. A box office is more typical of a theater, a clerk is a person, and a stub is the used portion of a ticket.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “ticket booth”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.