witness box

English

Noun

witness box (plural witness boxes)

1. (chiefly British) A witness stand in a courtroom.
   • 1910, Henry Lawson, The Rising of the Court:

     The same dingy court room, […] ; the royal arms above it [the bench] and the little witness box to one side, where so many honest poor people are bullied

   • 1920, A. E. W. Mason, “chapter XXXI”, in The Summons:

     There's no lie Jenny Prask wouldn't tell to force Joan into the witness box.

Synonyms

• (chiefly US) witness stand

Hypernyms

• box

Translations

place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 證人席／证人席 (zh) (zhèngrénxí)

• Dutch: getuigenbank (nl) c, getuigenbankje (nl) n
• Faroese: vitnisbásur
• Finnish: todistajanaitio
• Irish: clár na mionn m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vitneboks m

  Nynorsk: vitneboks m

• Turkish: tanık kürsüsü