kiosk

/ˌkiˈɑsk/

/ˈkiɒsk/

Other forms: kiosks

A kiosk is a small booth or stall. Shopping malls and airports have retail kiosks that sell all sorts of things, ranging from cookies to cell phones to sunglasses to perfumes to newspapers to . . . well, really almost anything!

You're probably familiar with retail kiosks, since they always seem to be located in highly visible areas of the mall, but there are other types of kiosks as well. Information kiosks provide helpful items to tourists, such as maps and pamphlets. You might also see electronic kiosks where you can buy tickets or get various types of information through videos or interactive presentations.

Definitions of kiosk

1. noun

   small area set off by walls for special use
   synonyms: booth, cubicle, stall

   types:

   confessional

   a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions

   polling booth

   a temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to cast their votes

   prompt box, prompter's box

   a booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage

   shower bath, shower stall

   booth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom

   call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk

   booth for using a telephone

   tolbooth, tollbooth, tollhouse

   a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls

   voting booth

   a booth in which a person can cast a private vote

   type of:

   closet

   a small private room for study or prayer