A container with flat sides and a lid, usually square or rectangular, used for holding or storing things.
From Old English “box” for a small container, from Latin “buxus,” meaning “box tree,” whose wood was used to make small boxes. The tree’s name became the container’s name.
Originally, a “box” was literally something made from the box tree, a very hard, fine-grained wood. The material became so tied to the object that the tree gave its name to every shape we now call a box.
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