KIOSK
What does "KIOSK" mean?
A small open-fronted booth or stand used for selling goods or providing information.
Meanings
- A small stall or booth, often in a public place, for selling newspapers, tickets, snacks, or the like. She bought a magazine from the kiosk outside the station.
- An unattended interactive terminal providing information or self-service. Check in for your flight at the kiosk before the security line.
- An open garden pavilion or summerhouse, especially in Turkish and Persian architecture. A marble kiosk overlooked the palace gardens. archaic
Did you know?
- Before it meant a snack stand or a self-service screen, a kiosk was a luxury: the word comes from the Persian 'kushk', an open garden pavilion attached to a palace.
Word origin
From French 'kiosque', from Turkish 'kosk' (pavilion, garden summerhouse), from Persian 'kushk' (palace, portico).
Remember it
KIOSK keeps the K-O-S-K of Turkish 'kosk' - a little pavilion that shrank into a sidewalk booth.
A little poem
Once a palace pavilion cool with shade,
it shrank to a lit box beside the road
where strangers tap, and tickets quietly trade.
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What it teaches
Grand things often survive only as the small, useful shapes they shrank into.
Quick facts
What does KIOSK mean?
A small open-fronted booth or stand used for selling goods or providing information.
Is KIOSK a valid word?
Yes — KIOSK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is KIOSK?
KIOSK has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does KIOSK come from?
From French 'kiosque', from Turkish 'kosk' (pavilion, garden summerhouse), from Persian 'kushk' (palace, portico).
What can KIOSK teach us?
Grand things often survive only as the small, useful shapes they shrank into.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.