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land line

land line is the alternative form of landline.

Meaning of landline

Noun

landline (plural landlines)

  1. A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
    • The land line was eight months later in its completion than was anticipated, but the fleet of cable ships, sent out by the British Australian Telegraph Company, arrived in Port Darwin at the date appointed by them: November 6th, 1871.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 134
    Synonyms:
    wireline
  2. (broadly) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not cellular or mobile.
  3. (attributive) That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).

Forms of land line

pluralland lines

Questions about land line

What is land line the alternative form of?
Land line is the alternative form of landline.

Words near land line in the dictionary

  1. land ho
  2. land in someone's lap
  3. land ironclad
  4. land ironclads
  5. land legs
  6. land line
  7. land lines
  8. land lobster
  9. land lobsters
  10. land lover
  11. land lovers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: land line (page history and authors); landline (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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