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BOX SEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does box seat mean? 

BOX SEAT (noun)
  The noun BOX SEAT has 2 senses:

1. a special seat in a theater or grandstand boxplay

2. the driver's seat on a coachplay

  Familiarity information: BOX SEAT used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOX SEAT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A special seat in a theater or grandstand box

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("box seat" is a kind of...):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

Holonyms ("box seat" is a part of...):

box; loge (private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance)

covered stand; grandstand (a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The driver's seat on a coach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

box; box seat

Context example:

an armed guard sat in the box with the driver

Hypernyms ("box seat" is a kind of...):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

Holonyms ("box seat" is a part of...):

coach; coach-and-four; four-in-hand (a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver)


 Context examples 


Yes, I see the lady upon the box seat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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