subscriber line

1. 1.

   a telephone connection

   Synonymstelephone linephone linetelephone circuitline

   Broaderconnection

   Narrowerdigital subscriber linehot lineland lineparty lineprivate linetoll linetrunk lineWATS

Questions about subscriber line

What does subscriber line mean?

subscriber line means "a telephone connection".

What is another word for subscriber line?

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

subscriber 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.