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Synonyms for telephone
ˈtɛl əˌfoʊntele·phone

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

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

  2. telephone, telephonyverb

    transmitting speech at a distance

    Synonyms:
    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, skirt

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How to use telephone in a sentence?

  1. Jim Watkins:

    Rest assured I am not an extremist. My telephone should work worldwide.

  2. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

    Well I have a lot of bad habits, one of them is my telephone manner, as everybody will say. When the conversation is over, I hang up. I've offended people, I don't mean to. But there's no need to talk anymore, The conversation is over.

  3. Samantha Meltzer-Brody:

    Most people in the world have access to a telephone, this study, while small, suggests that peer phone counseling could be a very effective, widespread public health intervention.

  4. Novak Djokovic:

    I had a telephone conversation with the leaders of world tennis. There were talks about the continuation of the season, mostly about the U.S. Open due in late August, but it's not known whether it will be held, the rules that they told us that we would have to respect to be there, to play at all, they are extreme. We would not have access to Manhattan, we would have to sleep in hotels at the airport, to be tested twice or three times per week.

  5. Judy Garland:

    If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?


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