wireless telephone

1. 1.

   telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire

   Synonymsradiotelephoneradiotelephony

   Broaderwireless
2. 2.

   a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables

   Synonymsradiotelephoneradiophone

   Broadertelephone

   Narrowercellular 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.