phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ̯n/
ipa: /foʊ̯n/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: phones
form: 'phone
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
French télé-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
French -phone
French téléphonebor.
English telephone
English phone
Clipping of telephone; first attested in 1884.
Senses: examples: text: Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.
text: My phone ran out of battery.
text: There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1994, Warren G feat. Nate Dogg Regulate (song)
glosses: A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.
Synonyms: word: phone
word: telephone
word: blower
word: pipe
word: Ameche
word: dog and bone
word: horn
Hypernyms: word: device
Hyponyms: word: cell phone
word: cellular
word: cellular phone
word: cordless phone
word: dial phone
word: dumbphone
word: feature phone
word: flip phone
word: mobile
word: mobile phone
word: mobile telephone
word: smartphone
Meronyms: word: cord
word: dial
word: handset
word: microphone
word: ringer
word: speaker
Derived terms: airphone
answer phone
bag phone
banana phone
bar phone
bat-phone
bat phone
batphone
brick phone
burner phone
burn phone
buzzer phone
camera phone
cameraphone
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
doorphone
door phone
dumbphone
earphone
entry-phone
entry phone
entryphone
eyephone
featurephone
feature phone
flip-phone
freephone
Googlephone
handphone
have more chins than a Chinese phone book
headphone
hold the phone
home phone
housephone
house phone
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
phonebook
phone book
phone booth
phonebox
phone box
phone call
phonecall
phonecam
phone card
phonecard
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
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
rotary phone
satellite phone
satphone
screenphone
slide phone
slider phone
smart phone
softphone
speakerphone
stick phone
superphone
swivel phone
symphonious
textphone
touch phone
touch-phone
touchphone
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