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 and divides as pay--phone under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.