telephone number

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Noun

telephone number (plural telephone numbers)

1. The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.

   Synonyms: number, phone number; digits (informal)

   Hypernym: number

   Hyponym: wrong number

   • 1902, J[ames] W[infield] Scott, “The Porter and the Ladies of Bagdad”, in Jack Hardin’s Rendering of the Arabian Nights: Being a New Translation in Up-to-Date English […], Boston, Mass.: Herbert B. Turner & Co., published April 1903, →OCLC, page 130:

     Well, that story satisfied old O’Herrin’s curiosity. But he wanted to know the fairy’s telephone number, and when Zobedee fetched her fairylets in by burning a lot of hair, while the grand vizier and the boss eunuch held their noses, he asked her to change the spaniels back into women.

2. (in the plural, figurative, humorous) A large number.

   Synonym: phone number

   Hypernym: number

   How much is that Rolls Royce? We are talking telephone numbers.

Related terms

• telephone book
• telephone call
• telephone line

Translations

digits assigned to a telephone

• Albanian: numër telefoni m
• Arabic: رَقْم هَاتِف m (raqm hātif), رَقْم تِلِفُون m (raqm tilifūn)
• Armenian: հեռախոսահամար (hy) (heṙaxosahamar)
• Azerbaijani: telefon nömrəsi
• Belarusian: ну́мар тэлефо́на m (númar teljefóna), тэлефо́нны ну́мар m (teljefónny númar)
• Bengali: টেলিফোন নাম্বার (ṭeliphōn nambar)
• Breton: niverenn bellgomz f
• Bulgarian: телефо́нен но́мер m (telefónen nómer)
• Burmese: ဖုန်းနံပါတ် (hpun:nampat), တယ်လီဖုန်းနံပါတ် (tailihpun:nampat)
• Catalan: número de telèfon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電話號碼 / 电话号码 (din⁶ waa^6-2 hou⁶ maa⁵), 電話冧巴 / 电话冧巴

  Hokkien: 電話號碼 / 电话号码 (tiān-ōe hō-má / tiān-ōe hō-bé)

  Mandarin: 電話號碼 / 电话号码 (zh) (diànhuà hàomǎ)

  Wu: 電話號頭 / 电话号头 (⁶di-gho ⁶ghau-deu)

• Czech: telefonní číslo n
• Danish: telefonnummer (da) n
• Dutch: telefoonnummer (nl) n, abonneenummer (nl) n (dated)
• Esperanto: telefonnumero
• Estonian: telefoninumber
• Finnish: puhelinnumero (fi)
• French: numéro de téléphone (fr) m, numéro (fr)
• Galician: número de teléfono m
• Georgian: ტელეფონის ნომერი (ṭeleponis nomeri)
• German: Telefonnummer (de) f
• Greek: αριθμός τηλεφώνου m (arithmós tilefónou), τηλεφωνικός αριθμός m (tilefonikós arithmós)
• Hebrew: מִסְפָּר טֵלֵפוֹן (he) m (mispár télefon)
• Hindi: टेलीफ़ोन नम्बर m (ṭelīfon nambar), फ़ोन नम्बर m (fon nambar)
• Hungarian: telefonszám (hu)
• Icelandic: símanúmer (is) n
• Indonesian: nomor telepon
• Irish: uimhir ghutháin f, uimhir fóin f, uimhir theileafóin f
• Italian: numero telefonico m, numero di telefono m
• Japanese: 電話番号 (ja) (でんわばんごう, denwa bangō)
• Kazakh: телефон нөмірі (telefon nömırı)
• Khmer: លេខទូរស័ព្ទ (leek tuurĕəʼsap)
• Korean: 전화번호(電話番號) (ko) (jeonhwabeonho)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hejmara telefonê

• Kyrgyz: телефон номуру (telefon nomuru)
• Lao: ເບີ​ໂທລະ​ສັບ (bœ̄ thō la sap), ຫມາຍ​ເລກ​ໂທລະ​ສັບ (māi lēk thō la sap)
• Latvian: telefona numurs m
• Lithuanian: telefono numeris m
• Macedonian: телефо́нски број m (telefónski broj)
• Malay: nombor telefon (ms)
• Māori: nama waea, tau waea
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: утасны дугаар (utasny dugaar)

• Navajo: béésh bee haneʼé
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telefonnummer (no) n

• Pashto: د تيلفون شمېره f (de telefun šmera)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شُمارِهٔ تِلِفُن (šomâre-ye telefon), نُمْرِهٔ تِلِفُن (nomre-ye telefon)

• Polish: numer telefonu m
• Portuguese: número telefônico (pt) m, número de telefone m
• Romanian: număr telefonic n, număr de telefon n
• Russian: но́мер телефо́на m (nómer telefóna), телефо́нный но́мер (ru) m (telefónnyj nómer)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: број телефона m, телефонски број m

  Latin: broj telefona m, telefonski broj m

• Sinhalese: දුරකථන අංක (durakathana aṁka)
• Slovak: telefónne číslo n
• Slovene: telefonsko številko n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: telefonowy numer m

• Spanish: número de teléfono m
• Swedish: telefonnummer (sv) n
• Tagalog: numero ng telepono
• Tajik: рақами телефон (raqam-i telefon), шумораи телефон (šumora-yi telefon)
• Tatar: телефон номеры (telefon nomerı)
• Thai: หมายเลขโทรศัพท์ (mǎai-lêek too-rá-sàp), เบอร์โทร (bəə too), เบอร์โทรศัพท์ (bəə too-rá-sàp)
• Turkish: telefon numarası
• Turkmen: telefon belgisi
• Ukrainian: но́мер телефо́ну m (nómer telefónu), телефо́нний но́мер m (telefónnyj nómer)
• Urdu: ٹیلی فون نَمْبَر m (ṭelī fon nambar), فون نَمْبَر m (fon nambar)
• Uyghur: تېلېفون نومۇرى (tëlëfon nomuri)
• Uzbek: telefon raqami, telefon nomeri
• Vietnamese: số điện thoại, số phôn, số dây nói
• Welsh: rhif ffôn m
• Yakut: телефон нүөмэрэ (telefon nüömere)

large number

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大數字 / 大数字 (dà shùzì)

• Finnish: iso numero
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can