telephone

1. 1.

   get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

   “I tried to call you all night”

   “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning”

   Synonymscallcall upphonering

   Broadertelecommunicate

   Narrowercell phonecall in

   telephone

Other forms of telephone

plural

telephones·

past tense

telephoned·

present participle

telephoning·

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 telephone

What does telephone mean?

telephone means "electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in telephone?

telephone has 3 syllables: tel-e-phone. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/.

What is another word for telephone?

Close synonyms include phone, telephone set, telephony, call, call up. 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 telephone a common word?

telephone is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with telephone?

12 words rhyme with telephone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.