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kiosk

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈkiːˌɒsk/
  • US: /ˈkiˌɑsk/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: K IY1 AO2 S K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A similar but unattended stand for the automatic dispensing of tickets, etc; an e-kiosk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A public telephone booth.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A Turkish garden pavilion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

small area set off by walls for special use

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: booth, cubicle, stall

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: closet

Narrower terms: confessional, polling booth, prompt box, prompter's box, shower stall, shower bath, telephone booth, phone booth, call box, telephone box, telephone kiosk, tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse, voting booth

History

Etymology

Earlier kiosque, from French kiosque, from Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk), from Classical Persian کوشْک (kōšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk).

Across languages

Translations

138 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Albanian: qoshk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Arabic: كُشْك (kušk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Arabic: كُشْك (kušk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Arabic: صاكة (ṣāka) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Armenian: կրպակ (krpak) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Armenian: տաղավար (taġavar) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Armenian: բուդկա (budka) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Azerbaijani: köşk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Azerbaijani: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Belarusian: кіёск (kijósk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Bulgarian: бу́дка (búdka) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Catalan: quiosc — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Chinese Mandarin: 商亭 (shāngtíng) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Chinese Mandarin: 亭 (tíng) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Chinese Mandarin: 亭子 (tíngzi) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Chinese Mandarin: 便亭 (biàntíng) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Chinese Mandarin: 售貨亭 /售货亭 (shòuhuòtíng) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Chinese Mandarin: 攤亭 /摊亭 (tāntíng) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小賣店 /小卖店 (xiǎomàidiàn) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Crimean Tatar: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Czech: stánek — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Czech: kiosek — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Danish: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Dutch: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Esperanto: budo — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Esperanto: kiosko — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Estonian: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Faroese: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Finnish: kioski — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • French: kiosque — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Galician: quiosco — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Georgian: კიოსკი (ḳiosḳi) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • German: Kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • German: Büdchen — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Greek: περίπτερο (períptero) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Gujarati: કિઓસ્ક (kiosk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Gujarati: લતાગૃહ (latāgŕh) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Hebrew: קִיּוֹסְק (kiósk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Hindi: गुमटी (gumṭī) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Hindi: खोखा (khokhā) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Hungarian: kioszk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Icelandic: skáli — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Icelandic: söluskáli — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Icelandic: söluturn — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Icelandic: sjoppa — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Ingrian: balagana — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Italian: chiosco — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Japanese: キオスク (kiosuku) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Japanese: 売店 (baiten) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Kalmyk: кивд (kivd) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Kazakh: дүңгіршек (düñgırşek) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Kazakh: киоск (kiosk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Khmer: តៀម (tiəm) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Korean: 매점 (maejeom) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Korean: 가판대 (gapandae) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Korean: 판매점 (panmaejeom) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Kyrgyz: күркө (kürkö) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Kyrgyz: киоск (kiosk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Latvian: kiosks — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Lithuanian: kioskas — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Macedonian: трафика (trafika) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Macedonian: бутка (butka) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Macedonian: киоск (kiosk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Malay: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Malay: kios — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Māori: wharau — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Māori: wharau hoko — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Norman: kiosque — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Pashto: کیوسک — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Iranian Persian: کِیوسْک (kiyusk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Iranian Persian: کوشْک (kušk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Iranian Persian: دَکِّه (dakke) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Polish: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Portuguese: quiosque — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Portuguese: banca — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Romanian: chioșc — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Russian: кио́ск (kiósk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Russian: ларёк (larjók) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Russian: бу́дка (búdka) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Serbo-Croatian: кѝоск — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Serbo-Croatian: тра̀фика — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Serbo-Croatian: kìosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Serbo-Croatian: tràfika — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Slovak: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Slovene: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Spanish: quiosco — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Spanish: kiosco — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Spanish: estanquillo — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Swedish: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Tajik: кӯшк (küšk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Tajik: дӯконча (dükonča) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Turkish: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Ottoman Turkish: كوشك (köşk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Turkmen: köşk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Turkmen: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Ukrainian: кіо́ск (kiósk) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Urdu: گُمْٹی (gumṭī) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Urdu: کھوکھا (khokhā) — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Uzbek: koʻshk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Uzbek: kiosk — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Vietnamese: gian hàng — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Vietnamese: quán — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Vietnamese: ki-ốt — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Welsh: ciosg — enclosed structure where cigarettes, magazines, etc are sold
  • Catalan: taquilla automàtica — unattended stand
  • Czech: automat — unattended stand
  • Danish: automat — unattended stand
  • Esperanto: aŭtomato — unattended stand
  • Esperanto: aŭtomata kiosko — unattended stand
  • Finnish: automaatti — unattended stand
  • Hungarian: automata — unattended stand
  • Hungarian: kioszk — unattended stand
  • Japanese: キオスク (kiosuku) — unattended stand
  • Korean: 키오스크 (kioseukeu) — unattended stand
  • Norwegian Bokmål: automat — unattended stand
  • Polish: automat — unattended stand
  • Portuguese: quiosque interativo — unattended stand
  • Portuguese: totem — unattended stand
  • Russian: автома́т (avtomát) — unattended stand
  • Russian: кио́ск (kiósk) — unattended stand
  • Spanish: quiosco — unattended stand
  • Swedish: automat — unattended stand
  • Armenian: բիսեդկա (bisedka) — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Bulgarian: павилио́н (pavilión) — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Catalan: pavelló — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Chinese Mandarin: 涼亭 /凉亭 (liángtíng) — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Esperanto: pavilono — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Esperanto: kiosko — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Greek: κιόσκι (kióski) — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Hungarian: kioszk — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kiosk — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hagepaviljong — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Persian: کوشک (kôšk) — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Russian: бесе́дка (besédka) — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Turkish: köşk — Turkish garden pavillion
  • Ottoman Turkish: كوشك (köşk) — Turkish garden pavillion
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