cellular telephone

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 phonecellphonecellmobile phone

   Broaderradiotelephone

Questions about cellular telephone

What does cellular telephone mean?

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

What is another word for cellular telephone?

Close synonyms include cellular phone, cellphone, 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 cellular telephone a common word?

cellular telephone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.