Synonyms for telephone
ˈtɛl əˌfoʊntele·phone

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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, 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

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. The DOJ:

   While rare, Justice Department follows the established procedures within Justice Department media guidelines policy when seeking legal process to obtain telephone toll records and non-content e-mail records from media members as part of a criminal investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

2. Kym Karath:

   It took nine months to film the movie in its entirety, and we had a lot of interaction… we’re on email or the telephone all the time. We’re not kidding about it being a second family.

3. Sir William Preece:

   The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

4. Rebecca Sutphen:

   Many progressive providers like Aetna provide those services by telephone, and, under the Affordable Care Act, genetic counseling is a preventive service that is to be covered without out of pocket cost to the patient.

5. Christopher Darlington Morley:

   If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.