Word: touchtones
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: touch
tones
Definition: Plural of touchtone; for use in push-button telephones supplied to telephone customers, starting in 1963
Morphemes:
Affix: touch
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: tochier
Language: fro
Decoded: tochier
Meaning: to touch
Affix: tone
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).