phone line

1. 1.

   a telephone connection

   Synonymstelephone linetelephone circuitsubscriber lineline

   Broaderconnection

   Narrowerdigital subscriber linehot lineland lineparty lineprivate linetoll linetrunk lineWATS

Questions about phone line

What does phone line mean?

phone line means "a telephone connection".

What is another word for phone line?

Close synonyms include telephone line, telephone circuit, subscriber line, line. 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 phone line a common word?

phone line 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.