Other forms: kiosks
A kiosk is a tiny street booth selling papers, snacks and tickets. A newspaper kiosk, buy it at the kiosk, a ticket kiosk.
It is a whole shop with no inside to walk into, which is the definition. The word now also covers the self-service screen in a station or a fast-food restaurant. It came from Turkish and Persian, where it meant a garden pavilion.
1nounkioskA tiny street booth selling papers, snacks and tickets.
“He bought a newspaper and a bottle of water at the kiosk outside the station.”
kiosk is a booth.
Also accepted in games: stand, stall
Turkish kosk comes from Persian kushk, a palace or pavilion. The sense shrank from a pavilion to a booth.
French
kiosque
English, today
kiosk
Borrowed from French kiosque. Earlier kiosque, from French kiosque, from Italian chiosco, from ota كوشك, from fa-cls کوشْک (“palace, portico”), from pal kwšk'.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA