caller id

1. 1.

   a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you

   Broaderdisplay

Questions about caller id

What does caller id mean?

caller id means "a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you".

Is caller id a common word?

caller id is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.