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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
telephone box
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that phone call ... Part of it was overheard by one of the village ladies waiting just outside the telephone box.
▪ Local government could meet in a telephone box because function is not important.
▪ On the way back, she made me wait on the bench outside the telephone box.
▪ One broker was found to be operating from a telephone box at Heathrow airport.
▪ The telephone box on the street corner - it is out of order.
▪ The headmaster pointed out the green telephone box at Fangdale Beck a tourist attraction even then.
Wiktionary
telephone box

n. (context British and Ireland English) A small enclosure housing a public telephone

WordNet
telephone box

n. booth for using a telephone [syn: telephone booth, phone booth, call box, telephone kiosk]

Usage examples of "telephone box".

The room was still unfurnished, save for the telephone box on the wall.

After a colloquy he shut himself up in a telephone box and was there some time.

She went into a telephone box, but they couldn't get the call, of course.

A dark blue Mercedes pulled up just a short distance away from the telephone box.

At a few minutes to five I drove inland to the nearest telephone box and put a call through to Eagler.

My legs were so weak that I had to lean against the glass panels of the telephone box to stop myself from collapsing.