telephone

Speech parts

1. telephone - Noun

2. telephone - Verb

Meaning

An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

To convey or announce by telephone.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

call ring phone call up telegraph dial horn mobile phone line get cell buzz reach contact cable

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Antonyms

disconnect hang up put down the phone put the phone down hang up the phone answer phones

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Hypernyms

telecommunicate electronic equipment

Hyponyms

call extension radiophone cell phone phone call call in

Phrases with the word

telephone service corded telephone landline telephone home telephone answer the telephone Broken Telephone

Anagrams

phenetole

Examples

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. Ogden Nash

If we 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 stammer that they loved them. Christopher Morley

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. Mortimer Adler

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. Chuck Palahniuk

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup

On the telephone That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them. Rutherford B. Hayes

Close letter words and terms

telephobia telephobic telephonable telephone advertising telephone alphabet telephone answering device