telephone receiver

1. 1.

   earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds

   Synonymsreceiver

   Broaderearphone

   Narrowerheadset

   Part oftelephone

Questions about telephone receiver

What does telephone receiver mean?

telephone receiver means "earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds".

What is another word for telephone receiver?

Close synonyms include receiver. 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 receiver a common word?

telephone receiver 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.