"box office" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbɒksˌɒfɪs/ [UK], /ˈbɑksˌɑfɪs/ [US], /ˈbɑksˌɔfɪs/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-box office.wav Forms: box offices [plural]
enPR: bäksʹä'fĭs [US], bäksʹô'fĭs [US] Etymology: 1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats (“separated private seating”). Sense of “total sales” from 1904. Folk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience. However, first attestation is over a century later (theaters were closed in 1642), making this highly unlikely. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} box office (countable and uncountable, plural box offices)
  1. (countable, film, theater) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Film, Theater Translations (ticket office): տոմսարկղ (tomsarkġ) (Armenian), taquilla [feminine] (Catalan), 票房 (piàofáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 售票處 (Chinese Mandarin), 售票处 (shòupiàochù) (Chinese Mandarin), lippukassa (Finnish), lippumyymälä (Finnish), billetterie [feminine] (French), guichet [masculine] (French), bileteira [feminine] (Galician), Schalter [masculine] (German), Kasse [feminine] (German), ταμείο (tameío) [neuter] (Greek), jegypénztár (Hungarian), miðasala [feminine] (Icelandic), biglietteria [feminine] (Italian), botteghino [masculine] (Italian), 切符売場 (kippu uriba) (alt: きっぷうりば) (Japanese), 出札所 (shussatsujo) (alt: しゅっさつじょ) (Japanese), билета́рница (biletárnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), ка́са (kása) [feminine] (Macedonian), billettkontor [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), billettkontor [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), bilheteria [feminine] (Portuguese), casă de bilete [feminine] (Romanian), биле́тная ка́сса (bilétnaja kássa) [feminine] (Russian), ка́сса (kássa) [feminine] (Russian), бу́дка (búdka) (alt: билетёра) [feminine] (Russian), taquilla [feminine] (Spanish), biljettkassa [common-gender] (Swedish), takilya (Tagalog), gişe (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-box_office-en-noun-Y~7xPGgX Topics: broadcasting, entertainment, film, lifestyle, media, television, theater Disambiguation of 'ticket office': 100 0 0
  2. (uncountable, by extension, film) The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters. Tags: broadly, uncountable Categories (topical): Film
    Sense id: en-box_office-en-noun-ruwBua7d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 44 52 Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
  3. (uncountable) Quality of an entertainment or spectacle that makes it very popular with the public, or likely to be so. Tags: uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: box-office, boxoffice [uncommon] Derived forms: box-office bomb, poison at the box office Related terms: ticket office, booking office ticket window (english: for train, bus), cume, will call

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "box-office bomb"
    },
    {
      "word": "poison at the box office"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "1786, presumably from sales of boxes, box seats (“separated private seating”). Sense of “total sales” from 1904.\nFolk etymology is that this derives from Elizabethan theatre, where theater admission was collected in a box attached to a long stick, passed around the audience. However, first attestation is over a century later (theaters were closed in 1642), making this highly unlikely.",
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      "word": "ticket office"
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      "word": "cume"
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      "word": "will call"
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        "A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema."
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        "(countable, film, theater) A place where tickets are sold in a theatre/theater or cinema."
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        "media",
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        "theater"
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          "text": "If any further insurance was required, the popularity of the three \"Topper\" films in the 1930s — based on Thorne Smith's characters — would seem to indicate that amusing ghosts made good box office.",
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        "(uncountable, by extension, film) The total amount of money paid by people worldwide to watch a movie at cinemas/movie theaters."
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        "Quality of an entertainment or spectacle that makes it very popular with the public, or likely to be so."
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        "(uncountable) Quality of an entertainment or spectacle that makes it very popular with the public, or likely to be so."
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɒksˌɒfɪs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɑksˌɔfɪs/",
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        "US"
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tomsarkġ",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "տոմսարկղ"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "ticket office",
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      "word": "taquilla"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "票房"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "售票處"
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      "word": "售票处"
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      "word": "lippukassa"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "word": "lippumyymälä"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ticket office",
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      "word": "guichet"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "bileteira"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Schalter"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kasse"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tameío",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ταμείο"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "jegypénztár"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "miðasala"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "biglietteria"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ticket office",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "botteghino"
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      "alt": "きっぷうりば",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kippu uriba",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "切符売場"
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      "alt": "しゅっさつじょ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shussatsujo",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "出札所"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "biletárnica",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "билета́рница"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kása",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ка́са"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "billettkontor"
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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "billettkontor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bilheteria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "casă de bilete"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bilétnaja kássa",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "биле́тная ка́сса"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kássa",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ка́сса"
    },
    {
      "alt": "билетёра",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "búdka",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бу́дка"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "taquilla"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "biljettkassa"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "takilya"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "ticket office",
      "word": "gişe"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Elizabethan theatre",
    "box office"
  ],
  "word": "box office"
}

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