telephone system

Questions about telephone system

What does telephone system mean?

telephone system means "a communication system that transmits sound between distant points".

What is another word for telephone system?

Close synonyms include phone system. 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 system a common word?

telephone system 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.