Definition of Playbox

1. Noun. A box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school).

Exact synonyms: Play-box
Generic synonyms: Box
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland

Lexicographical Neighbors of Playbox

playacts
playas
playathon
playathons
playback
playback singer
playbacks
playbill
playbills
playblast
playblasts
playboard
playboards
playbooks
playbox (current term)
playboys
playbus
playbuses
playdate
playdates
playday
playdays
playdough
playdoughs
playdown
playdowns
playe
played

Literary usage of Playbox

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Walking along the shed soon after he noticed a playbox with the same kind of point. Happy thought, ' I'll make a playbox.' When he had matriculated in this ..."

2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"'10. Ginn. Play: games for the kindergarten, playground, school room and college. Angell, ED •»1.50. Little. playbox annual for 1910. Q. 11. bds. »1.25. ..."

3. "Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson (1910)
"He was thirteen ; already he had been taunted for dallying overlong about the playbox; he had to blush if he was found among his lead soldiers; ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1891)
"When he considered he had given her sufficient time for a rapid examination, Gibbs—with something of the feeling with which a schoolboy opens his playbox ..."

5. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Walking along the shed soon after he noticed a playbox with the same kind of point. Happy thought, ' I'll make a playbox.' When he had matriculated in this ..."

6. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"'10. Ginn. Play: games for the kindergarten, playground, school room and college. Angell, ED •»1.50. Little. playbox annual for 1910. Q. 11. bds. »1.25. ..."

7. "Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson (1910)
"He was thirteen ; already he had been taunted for dallying overlong about the playbox; he had to blush if he was found among his lead soldiers; ..."

8. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1891)
"When he considered he had given her sufficient time for a rapid examination, Gibbs—with something of the feeling with which a schoolboy opens his playbox ..."

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