landline

Noun

Meaning

a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

land line wireline line call cell cable link telephone wire blower kwai phone filaria wired payphone

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Antonyms

inconstant moving variable uncertain unstable irregular

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Hypernyms

line phone line telephone line telephone circuit subscriber line

Phrases with the word

landline phone landline telephone landline phone wire

Examples

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication. Glenn Greenwald

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. John H. Sununu

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all. Rainbow Rowell

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago. Reed Hastings

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone. Susan Orlean

You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though. Lauren Groff

Close letter words and terms

landless landlessness landlike landline phone landline phone wire landline telephone