radiotelephone

1. 1.

   telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire

   Synonymsradiotelephonywireless telephone

   Broaderwireless
2. 2.

   a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables

   Synonymsradiophonewireless telephone

   Broadertelephone

   Narrowercellular telephone

Other forms of radiotelephone

plural

radiotelephones·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about radiotelephone

What does radiotelephone mean?

radiotelephone means "telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in radiotelephone?

radiotelephone has 6 syllables: ra-di-o-te-le-phone. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for radiotelephone?

Close synonyms include radiotelephony, wireless telephone, radiophone, wireless telephone. 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 radiotelephone a common word?

radiotelephone 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.