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ansaphone

ansaphone is the alternative form of answerphone.

Meaning of answerphone

Noun

answerphone (plural answerphones)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) Synonym of answering machine, especially one built into a telephone.
    • I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone.

Forms of ansaphone

pluralansaphones

Questions about ansaphone

What is ansaphone the alternative form of?
Ansaphone is the alternative form of answerphone.

Words near ansaphone in the dictionary

  1. ansamitocinosides
  2. ansamitocins
  3. ansamycin
  4. ansamycins
  5. Ansan
  6. ansaphone
  7. ansaphones
  8. Ansar
  9. Ansar al-Sharia
  10. Ansari
  11. Ansaris

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ansaphone (page history and authors); answerphone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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