booth

Meaning

Noun

• A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
• An enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person.
• An enclosed table with seats, as in a diner or café.
• An enclosure for keeping animals.

Origin

• From Middle English bothe, from Old Norse búð (compare Swedish bod) and/or the commoner variant búð (> Scots buth), from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.