pay-phone

1. 1.

   a coin-operated telephone

   Synonymspay-station

   Broadertelephone

Questions about pay-phone

What does pay-phone mean?

pay-phone means "a coin-operated telephone".

How many syllables are in pay-phone?

pay-phone has 2 syllables: pay--phone. The stress falls on "pay-".

What is another word for pay-phone?

Close synonyms include pay-station. 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 pay-phone a common word?

pay-phone 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.