A box seat is a small private seating area at the side of a theatre. Sit in a box seat, hire a box seat, the box seats above.
The view is often poor, since a box seat is at the side and looks across the stage rather than at it, and the point was always being seen rather than seeing. In Australia, in the box seat means in the best position.
1nounbox seatA small private seating area at the side of a theatre.
“We watched the opera from a box seat high above the side of the stage.”
box seat is a seat.
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