wireless telephone

Questions about wireless telephone

What does wireless telephone mean?

wireless telephone means "telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wireless telephone?

Close synonyms include radiotelephone, radiotelephony, radiotelephone, radiophone. 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 wireless telephone a common word?

wireless telephone 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.