box

¹box

noun

Definition of BOX

1

a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things <filled a whole box with books>

Synonyms bin, box, caddy, case, casket, locker, trunk

Related Words carton, crate; footlocker, locker, sea chest; coffer, lockbox, safe, safe-deposit box, strongbox; coffin; compartment, vault; canteen; caisson, hope chest; minaudière; bandbox, hatbox, jewel box, snuffbox, tinderbox

2

a boxlike container for holding a dead body <the only way I'm ever leaving this hospital room is in a box>

Synonyms bier, box, casket, pall, sarcophagus

Related Words charnel (also charnel house), crypt, sepulchre (or sepulcher), sepulture, tomb, vault; urn; body bag

3

an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound <would you switch on the box so that we can watch the news?>

Synonyms boob tube, box, idiot box, telly [chiefly British], tube, TV

Related Words LCD, plasma; home theater, home video

4

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <with our new home still unfinished, and the buyers of our condo eager to move in, we were in a real box>

Synonyms bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

Related Words difficulty, node; hot water, soup; pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble; deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill; clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait