cellphone
/ˈsɛlfəʊn/US/ˈsɛlfoʊn/
cellphone is the alternative form of cell phone.
Meaning of cell phone
Noun
cell phone (plural cell phones)
- A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.
- Synonyms:
- cell, cellular mobile, cellular, cellular telephone, cellular phone, handphone, mobile, mobile phone, sail foam, wireless phone
Verb
cellphone (third-person singular simple present cellphones, present participle cellphoning, simple past and past participle cellphoned)
- To make a call to (someone) on a cellphone.
- They stood on line, and slept and ate and cellphoned, all night and into the day.2003, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record
- That information — including estimates that cellphoning drivers caused 955 fatalities and 240,000 accidents in 2002 — was finally pried loose this week by a freedom of information lawsuit.2009 July 23, “The Truth About Cars and Cellphones”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021
Forms of cellphone
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cellphones |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cellphones |
| present participle | cellphoning |
| past participle | cellphoned |
| past | cellphoned |
Words formed from cellphone
Phrases with cellphone
Questions about cellphone
- What does cellphone mean?
- Cellphone means to make a call to (someone) on a cellphone.
- What is cellphone the alternative form of?
- Cellphone is the alternative form of cell phone.
- What part of speech is cellphone?
- Cellphone is a verb.
- How do you pronounce cellphone?
- Cellphone is pronounced /ˈsɛlfəʊn/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of cellphone?
- The past tense of cellphone is cellphoned.
Words near cellphone in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cellphone (page history and authors); cell phone (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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