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English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Etymology tree
Clipping of telephone; first attested in 1884.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]phone (plural phones)
- A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
- Hyponyms: cell phone, speakerphone, clamshell phone, flip phone, mobile phone, smartphone
- Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
- My phone ran out of battery.
- There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.
- (colloquial) A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
- 1994, Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate (song)
- It was a clear black night, a clear white moon / Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume / Some skirts for the eve so I can get some phones / Rollin' in my ride, chillin' all alone
- 1994, Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate (song)
Derived terms
[edit]- airphone
- answer phone
- bag phone
- banana phone
- bar phone
- batphone
- bat phone
- bat-phone
- brick phone
- burner phone
- burn phone
- buzzer phone
- cameraphone
- camera phone
- camphone
- candlestick phone
- candy bar phone
- can I use your phone
- cardphone
- carphone
- car phone
- car-phone
- cell-phone
- cell phone lot
- cellular phone
- computerphone
- cordless phone
- cryptophone
- dataphone
- deskphone
- diaphone
- diphone
- door phone
- doorphone
- dumbphone
- earphone
- entryphone
- entry phone
- entry-phone
- eyephone
- featurephone
- feature phone
- flip-phone
- freephone
- Googlephone
- handphone
- have more chins than a Chinese phone book
- headphone
- hold the phone
- home phone
- house phone
- housephone
- I got 2 phones
- interphone
- iPhone
- isophone
- Jesus phone
- keyphone
- miniphone
- money phone
- multiphone
- netphone
- Obama phone
- on the phone
- pass the phone
- payphone
- pay phone
- phablet
- phlog
- phlogging
- phonable
- phoneaholic
- phone bank
- phone book
- phonebook
- phone booth
- phone box
- phonebox
- phone call
- phonecall
- phonecam
- phone card
- phonecard
- phone-free
- phoneful
- phone hacking
- phone home
- phone-in
- phone-in show
- phone jack
- phone jail
- phoneless
- phonelike
- phone line
- phonemaker
- phonemark
- phone monkey
- phone number
- phoneography
- phone-out
- phonepost
- phoneputer
- phone sex
- phone-sex
- phone survey
- phone tag
- phone tree
- phoneward
- phonewise
- phoneword
- phone zombie
- phonicate
- phreak
- phreaking
- phub
- pick up the phone
- picturephone
- pocketphone
- polyphone
- pornophone
- portable phone
- rotary phone
- satellite phone
- satphone
- screenphone
- slide phone
- slider phone
- smart phone
- softphone
- speakerphone
- stick phone
- superphone
- swivel phone
- symphonious
- textphone
- touch-phone
- touchphone
- touch phone
- trackerphone
- trap phone
- trimphone
- triphone
- ultraphone
- videophone
- viewphone
- visionphone
- visiphone
- watchphone
- webphone
- what is your phone number
- what's your phone number
- wireless phone
- world phone
- wristphone
Descendants
[edit]- → Burmese: ဖုန်း (hpun:)
- → Hindustani:
- → Irish: fón
- → Persian:
- Dari: فون (fōn)
- → Portuguese: fone
- → Tamil: ஃபோன் (fōṉ)
- → Vietnamese: phôn
- → Welsh: ffôn
Translations
[edit]telephone — see telephone
See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]phone (third-person singular simple present phones, present participle phoning, simple past and past participle phoned)
- (ambitransitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.
- Synonyms: call, phone up, ring, telephone
- Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.
- Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.
Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from phone (etymology 1—verb)
Translations
[edit]to call (someone) on the telephone
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Noun
[edit]phone (plural phones)
- (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]speech segment
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]phone m (plural phones)
- phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
- (linguistics) phone
Verb
[edit]phone
- inflection of phoner:
Further reading
[edit]- “phone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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