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kiosk

[ kee-osk, kee-osk ]

noun

  1. a small structure having one or more sides open, used as a newsstand, refreshment stand, bandstand, etc.
  2. a thick, columnlike structure on which notices, advertisements, etc., are posted.
  3. an interactive computer terminal available for public use, as one with internet access or site-specific information:

    Students use kiosks to look up campus events.

  4. an open pavilion or summerhouse common in Turkey and Iran.
  5. British. a telephone booth.


kiosk

/ ˈkiːɒsk /

noun

  1. a small sometimes movable booth from which cigarettes, newspapers, light refreshments, etc, are sold
  2. a telephone box
  3. a thick post on which advertisements are posted
  4. (in Turkey, Iran, etc, esp formerly) a light open-sided pavilion


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Word History and Origins

Origin of kiosk1

First recorded in 1615–25; from French kiosque “stand in a public park,” ultimately from Turkish köşk “villa,” from Persian kūshk “palace, villa”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of kiosk1

C17: from French kiosque bandstand, from Turkish kösk, from Persian kūshk pavilion

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Example Sentences

In May, Daugaard traveled to neighboring Minnesota to open a kiosk in the Mall of America to attract workers to his state.

A secret trap door in the kiosk below the clock leads to a spiral staircase down to the lower level info booth.

Maybe he chose the elementary school in part because the high-school entrance has a security kiosk manned by a guard.

Upon your return, an officer from Customs and Border Protection directs you to a kiosk that looks like an ATM.

A border kiosk, however, may be worth consideration, he says.

But Momoy had attended the wedding, so his posthumous emotion can be appreciated: he had been near the kiosk.

He stepped out of a kiosk onto an upper deck, thirty feet above the surface.

A veritable kiosk of dreamland now, which one feels is about to disappear for ever under these waters which will subside no more!

No doubt, round their Kiosk there are crowds all day, in roars of laughter, at the chaffing perpetually going on.

They embraced and kissed each other, and the sister led the brother up into the kiosk, and had his horse taken to a stable.

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