telephone pole

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   tall pole supporting telephone wires

   Synonymstelegraph poletelegraph post

   Broaderpost

Questions about telephone pole

What does telephone pole mean?

telephone pole means "tall pole supporting telephone wires".

What is another word for telephone pole?

Close synonyms include telegraph pole, telegraph post. 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 pole a common word?

telephone pole 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.