Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

booking office

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables: book-ing of-fice
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place where tickets are sold, e.g. at a railway station or theatre.

British usage

Example Sentences

"The NYMR [North Yorkshire Moors Railway] runs the booking office in Whitby, selling national rail tickets alongside those for the steam services."
"Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

booking offices (plural)

Phrases

box office

Frequently Paired Words

box office

Synonyms

ticket office

Questions

What does booking office mean?: A place where tickets are sold, e.g. at a railway station or theatre.

How to pronounce booking office

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “booking office”.
Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.
Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “booking office”.
Repeat and practice — Say “booking office” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.