TOLLBOOTH

Definition: TOLLBOOTH

TOLLBOOTH

Noun

1. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.

2. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.

Transitive verb

1. To imprison in a tollbooth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: TOLLBOOTH

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mart	Noun: mart; market, marketplace; fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall; tollbooth, customhouse; Tattersall's.
Prison	Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TOLLBOOTH

English words defined with "TOLLBOOTH": Tolsey. (references)

Etymologies containing "TOLLBOOTH": Tolsey. (references)

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Modern Usage: TOLLBOOTH

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TOLLBOOTH

Domain	Title
Books	LA Caseta Magica/the Phantom Tollbooth (reference) The Phantom Tollbooth (Book Wise Literature Guides) (reference) The Tofu Tollbooth (reference) The Tofu Tollbooth : A Guide to Great Natural Food Stores & Eating Spots - With Lots of Other Cools Stops Along the Way (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Tollbooth (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Baron Von Tollbooth And The Chrome Nun [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TOLLBOOTH

"TOLLBOOTH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TOLLBOOTH" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TOLLBOOTH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
phantom tollbooth	89
tollbooth	13
lesson phantom plan tollbooth	5
tollbooth willie	3
book phantom tollbooth	3
m tollbooth	3
beard lightning phantom tollbooth	3
tollbooth willy	2
movie phantom tollbooth	2
phantom picture tollbooth	2
phantom quote tollbooth	2
adam mp3 sandler tollbooth willy	2
phantom summary tollbooth	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TOLLBOOTH

Language		Translations for "TOLLBOOTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Mautstelle. (various references)

Pig Latin		ollboothtay

Russian		будка (barn, booth, cab, cabin, cope, shed, stand, tollhouse). (various references)

Scottish		toll-dhubh. (various references)

Vietnamese		nh� giam (bagnio, cage, clink, gaol, prison, prison-house, tolbooth). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TOLLBOOTH

Derivations
	Words beginning with "TOLLBOOTH": tollbooths. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TOLLBOOTH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-h-l-l-o-o-o-t-t"
	-1 letter: tolbooth.
	-3 letters: blotto, holloo.
	-4 letters: bhoot, booth, hollo, lotto, tooth.
	-5 letters: blot, boll, bolo, bolt, boot, both, bott, hobo, holt, hoot, lobo, loot, loth, obol, otto, toll, tool, toot.
	Words containing the letters "b-h-l-l-o-o-o-t-t"
	+1 letter: tollbooths.
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