Synonyms for téléphone
ˈtɛl əˌfoʊntéléphone

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1. telephoneverb

   Synonyms:
   Ameche, blower, dog and bone, horn, phone, drop a line, call, ring, farspeaker

2. telephonenoun

   An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).

   Synonyms:
   ring, call, phone, drop a line, Ameche, horn, blower, farspeaker, dog and bone

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1. telephone, phone, telephone setnoun

   electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

   "I talked to him on the telephone"

   Synonyms:
   sound, telephone, earphone, telephone set, phone, earpiece, headphone, telephony, speech sound

2. telephone, telephonyverb

   transmitting speech at a distance

   Synonyms:
   telephone, telephone set, telephony, phone

3. call, telephone, call up, phone, ringverb

   get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

   "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

   Synonyms:
   predict, forebode, band, prognosticate, bring forward, promise, phone, yell, call off, recollect, surround, shout out, retrieve, foretell, cry, peal, call in, scream, environ, holler, rally, mobilize, call up, echo, hollo, call, think, send for, knell, anticipate, border, address, visit, resound, shout, recall, mobilise, reverberate, name, call back, squall, bid, ring, remember, telephone, skirt

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "telephone":

   phone, tel, telephony, téléphone, phones, telefónica, telephones, telephonic, call, telephone-based, calls, phone-based, voice

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1. Delaware State Police:

   Delaware State Police Dispatch Centers are now operational and 911 calls are being received, if you call 911 and receive a busy signal or recorded message, callers are encouraged to text 911 and type your emergency in the message field or utilize the non-emergency telephone numbers.

2. Reinhard Genzel:

   Once the announcement is made, you lose your identity within half an hour, the telephone rings all the time.

3. Mike Lee:

   The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

4. John Carlos:

   We realized that after 51 years the greatest invention was not the plane, not the TV, not the telephone but the eraser, to realize that we can make mistakes in life and there should be no shame.

5. The New York Times:

   Chris Cuomo has regularly spoken with Governor Cuomo by telephone over the past week and advised his brother to resign, said two people who requested anonymity to describe sensitive private conversations, the anchor concluded last week that his brother could not survive the political maelstrom, as the governor’s longtime allies abandoned him and support in the Democratic establishment dwindled, the people said.