cellphone

1. 1.

   a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

   Synonymscellular telephonecellular phonecellmobile phone

   Broaderradiotelephone

Other forms of cellphone

plural

cellphones·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cellphone

What does cellphone mean?

cellphone means "a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver".

How many syllables are in cellphone?

cellphone has 2 syllables: cell-phone. The stress falls on "cell". In IPA it is /ˈsɛlfoʊn/.

What is another word for cellphone?

Close synonyms include cellular telephone, cellular phone, cell, mobile phone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cellphone a common word?

cellphone is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.