mobile phone

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Etymology

From mobile + phone.

Noun

mobile phone (plural mobile phones)

1. A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network over radio wave transmission.

Synonyms

• cell, cellphone/cell phone (mainly US, Canada and New Zealand)
• cellular, cellular mobile, cellular phone, cellular telephone
• handphone (mainly Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Hawaii and Singapore)
• mobile (mainly UK, Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong, India and Singapore)
• mobile telephone

Translations

• French: téléphone mobile, mobile, (France) téléphone portable portable, (Belgium) GSM (note: often used for mobile phones that are not technically GSM), (Canada) téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, (colloquial), (Switzerland) natel
• German: Mobiltelefon, Funktelefon, Handy, (Switzerland) Natel
• Italian: cellulare, telefono cellulare, telefono mobile, telefonino, (Switzerland) natel
• Portuguese: telefone móvel, telemóvel, telefone celular, celular
• Russian: моби́льный телефо́н
• Spanish: teléfono móvil, móvil (Spain), teléfono celular, celular (Hispanic/Latin America)

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