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phoning ahead

phoning ahead is the present participle and gerund of phone ahead.

Meaning of phone ahead

Verb

phone ahead (third-person singular simple present phones ahead, present participle phoning ahead, simple past and past participle phoned ahead)

  1. (intransitive) To make a phone call at a destination before arriving there to let people there know one is coming and to make suitable arrangements.

Questions about phoning ahead

What is phoning ahead the present participle and gerund of?
Phoning ahead is the present participle and gerund of phone ahead.

Words near phoning ahead in the dictionary

  1. phoniest
  2. phonily
  3. phoniness
  4. phoninesses
  5. phoning
  6. phoning ahead
  7. phoning home
  8. phoning in
  9. phoning up
  10. phonings
  11. phonino

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phoning ahead (page history and authors); phone ahead (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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