telephone line

Questions about telephone line

What does telephone line mean?

telephone line means "the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for telephone line?

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

telephone line is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.