telephone receiver

Questions about telephone receiver

What is another word for telephone receiver?

It depends which telephone receiver you mean. In the sense “earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds”, the synonyms are receiver. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of telephone receiver?

WordNet records no antonym for telephone receiver. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for telephone receiver come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of telephone receiver

• Full entry for telephone receiverAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for telephone receiverWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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