phone
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
phone (plural phones)
- A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
- Hyponyms: cell phone, speakerphone, clamshell phone, flip phone, mobile phone, smartphone
- Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
- My phone ran out of battery.
- There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.
phone (phones, present participle phoning; simple past and past participle phoned)
- (transitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
- Synonyms: call, ring, telephone
- Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
- French: téléphoner, appeler
- German: anrufen, telefonieren
- Italian: telefonare
- Portuguese: telefonar para, chamar, ligar para
- Russian: звони́ть
- Spanish: telefonear, llamar por teléfono, timbrar (America)
From Ancient Greek φωνή.
Nounphone (plural phones)
- (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
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