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phone noun [ fəʊn ]

• a telephone.
• "a few seconds later the phone rang"
Similar: telephone, mobile phone, mobile, cell phone, car phone, radiotelephone, cordless phone, videophone, extension, speakerphone, blower, dog and bone,
• headphones or earphones.

phone verb

• contact someone by phone.
• "he phoned her at work"
Similar: telephone, call, call up, give someone a call/ring, ring, get someone on the phone, get on the phone to, get, reach, dial, make/place a call (to), ring up, buzz, give someone a buzz, bell, give someone a bell/tinkle, get on the blower to, get someone on the horn,
Origin: late 19th century: abbreviation of telephone.

phone noun

• a speech sound; the smallest discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech.
Origin: mid 19th century: from Greek phōnē ‘sound, voice’.

-phone combining form

• denoting an instrument using or connected with sound.
• "megaphone"
• denoting a person who uses a specified language.
• "francophone"
Origin: from Greek phōnē ‘sound, voice’.

on the phone

• engaged in a conversation over the phone.
• "we were on the phone for 45 minutes"

on the phone

• engaged in a conversation over the phone.
"we were on the phone for 45 minutes"



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