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noun
  1. 1
    a container with straight sides, a flat base, and sometimes a lid

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

    General containers: basket, bin, box, case, catch-all, chest, container, crate, envelope, mold... more
    1. a.
      the things in a box, or the amount that a box contains

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

      Amounts of things described according to what holds them: armful, bag, basket, boatload, box, boxful, bucket, bucketful, cartload, dessertspoon... more
  2. 2
    a space on a printed form, in which you write

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

    Parts of pieces of writing: amendment, annex, annexe, attachment, attention line, blank, box, coda, contents, foot... more
    1. a.
      a space on a computer screen, where you can read or write a particular type of information

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

      On the computer screen: active window, avatar, bar, blank, blip, box, button, button bar, cell, checkbox... more
  4. 4

    the box

     the penalty area in soccer

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

    Sports fields and parts of sports fields: alley, AstroTurf, baseline, the bench, bleachers, bowl, the box, clay, court, crease... more
  6. 6
    a tree with small shiny leaves that people grow especially around the edges of their yards

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

    Trees: acacia, alder, almond, ash, aspen, balsa, banyan, baobab, bay, bay tree... more
  7. 7
    informal a casket for a dead body

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

    Funerals and burial: ashes, bier, box, burial, bury, casket, coffin, cortege, cremains, cremate... more
  8. 8
    British a phone booth

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

    Public telephones: box, call box, pay phone, phone booth, phone box, telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk... more
  10. 10

    the box

     British informal the television

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of box*

    General words for television and radio: the airwaves, the boob tube, the box, radio, the small screen, television, telly, the tube, TV... more

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