telephone wire

1. 1.

   the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals

   Synonymstelephone linetelegraph wiretelegraph line

   Broaderwire

   Narrowertelephone cord

Questions about telephone wire

What does telephone wire mean?

telephone wire means "the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals".

What is another word for telephone wire?

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

telephone wire 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.