phone number

1. 1.

   the number is used in calling a particular telephone

   “he has an unlisted number”

   Synonymstelephone numbernumber

   Broadersignal

Questions about phone number

What does phone number mean?

phone number means "the number is used in calling a particular telephone".

What is another word for phone number?

Close synonyms include telephone number, number. 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 number a common word?

phone number 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.