Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis is a collection of stories created by C. S. Lewis ("Jack") and his brother W. H. Lewis ("Warnie") as children.

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Oct 1, 1985 · Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis C.S. Lewis, W.H. Lewis, Walter Hooper (Editor) 3.46 375 ratings61 reviews

Jan 26, 2026 · Adjective boxen (comparative more boxen, superlative most boxen) Made of boxwood. Resembling box (the wood).

Jan 1, 2008 · A collection of maps, histories, sketches, and stories created by C.S. Lewis as a child to describe his private fantasy world, known as Animal-Land or Boxen. A scholarly introduction explains …

[very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase ‘Unix boxen’, used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are …

Boxen is a fictional world that C. S. Lewis and his brother W. H. Lewis created as children. The world of Boxen was created when Jack’s stories about Animal-Land and Warnie’s stories about India were …

From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box +‎ -en.

Oct 5, 2004 · boxen Plural for box or computer. Usually PCs. My friend and I just fixed a shitload of windows boxen.

In tech, “boxen” is an informal pluralization of “box,” which itself is slang for a computer, server, or other computing hardware. While the standard English plural would be “boxes,” some tech professionals …