land line

1. 1.

   a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits

   “a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave”

   Synonymslandline

   Broadertelephone line

Questions about land line

What does land line mean?

land line means "a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits".

What is another word for land line?

Close synonyms include landline. 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 land line a common word?

land line 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.