TELEPHONE meaning: Device for transmitting voice remotely

We found 46 dictionaries that define the word telephone:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

telephone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
telephone: Merriam-Webster
telephone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
telephone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
telephone: Collins English Dictionary
telephone: Vocabulary.com
Telephone, telephone: Wordnik
telephone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
telephone: Wiktionary
telephone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
telephone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
telephone: Infoplease Dictionary
telephone: Dictionary.com
telephone: Online Etymology Dictionary
telephone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Telephone (Lady Gaga song), Telephone (album), Telephone (application), Telephone (band), Telephone (disambiguation), Telephone (game), Telephone (song), Telephone (sternwheeler), The Telephone (opera), The Telephone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Telephone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
telephone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
telephone: Rhymezone
telephone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
telephone: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
telephone: FreeDictionary.org
telephone: Mnemonic Dictionary
telephone: TheFreeDictionary.com
telephone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Telephone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)

TELEPHONE: Band Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)

BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

I T Glossary (No longer online)
telephone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Telephone, Telephone: Laser Eye Surgery

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
telephone: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

telephone: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

telephone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
telephone: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)

telephone: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
telephone: Electronics
AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).
▸ noun:  (countable, historical) The receiver of such a device.
▸ noun:  (Canada, US, uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
▸ noun:  (Canada, US, uncountable, figuratively) Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To convey (a message) via telephone.

Opposite:

letter, mail, courier, post, telegram

Types:

rotary phone, cordless phone, pay phone, smartphone, landline, more...

Phrases:

telephone number, telephone call, telephone calls, Telephone company, telephone numbers, more...

Adjectives:

public, mobile, cellular, distance, first, wireless, nearest, long, private, black, ordinary

Colors:

black, red, white, blue, gray, more...

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