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"