telephone

Also used as

telephone is also the archaic abbreviation of telephone call.

telephone meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of telephone in a sentence

• The telephones so constructed were placed in different rooms. […] Upon singing into the telephone, the tones of the voice were reproduced by the instrument in the distant room.1876 May 10 (date delivered), A[lexander] Graham Bell, “Researches in Telephony”, in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and...
• In a more familiar metaphor, Jach is the telephone through which Lazaris places his long distance calls: very long distance calls.1990, Earl Babbie, “Channels to Elsewhere”, in Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, editors, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism...
• It has been suggested, that telegraphs, or, more properly speaking, telephones, might be invented upon this principle.1832 August, “Art. II.—The Music of Nature; or An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and Pleasing in the Art of Singing, Speaking...
• The days are behind us (I recall) when children played with makeshift telephones made from jam tins connected by string; […]2013, John Keane, “Communicative Abundance”, in Democracy and Media Decadence, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press...

All 40 example sentences with telephone

Synonyms of telephone

• Ameche
• blower
• dog and bone
• horn
• phone
• pipe
• Chinese whispers
• call
• call up
• drop someone a line

All synonyms of telephone

Forms of telephone

Past tense of telephone: telephoned

Plural of telephone: telephones

Origin of telephone

The noun is derived from tele- (prefix meaning ‘from a distance’) + -phone (suffix denoting a device which makes a sound), modelled after German Telephon (“early apparatus converting sound into electrical signals”) (dated) (now German Telefon). The word was first used to refer to the modern device in 1876 by the Scottish-born Canadian-American engineer Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922). The prefix tele- is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar, far away, far off”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn”). The suffix -phone is ultimately from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; voice”), and Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say; to speak”). Noun sense 4.4 (“system of communication using musical notes”) is borrowed from French téléphone (“kind of megaphone; system of communication using musical notes”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Words formed from telephone

• antitelephone
• big white telephone
• broken telephone
• Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen telephone
• EPR telephone
• Everett-Wheeler telephone
• on the telephone
• phone
• plain old telephone service
• post office telephone system
• premium-rate telephone number
• pretelephone
• talk to God on the big white telephone
• talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
• telco
• telemarketing
• telephone alphabet
• telephone answering machine
• telephone-bell
• telephone book
• telephone booth
• telephone box
• telephone call
• telephone card
• telephone conference
• telephone desk
• telephone directory
• telephone exchange
• telephone game
• telephone girl
• telephone jack
• telephone kiosk
• telephoneless
• telephonelike
• telephone line
• telephone number
• telephone operator
• telephone pole
• telephone ring
• telephone scatologia
• telephone sex
• telephone shower
• telephone tag
• telephone typewriter
• telephonic
• telephonicate
• telephonist
• telephonitis
• telephonology
• telephonophile
• telephonophobia
• telephonophobic
• telephony
• telethon
• thermotelephone
• Tucker telephone
• untelephoned
• white-telephone
• white telephone
• telephonable

Phrases with telephone

• field telephone
• radio telephone
• smart telephone
• telephone books
• telephone boxes
• telephone calls
• telephone cards
• telephone desks
• telephone games
• telephone girls
• telephone jacks
• telephone lines

Questions about telephone

What does telephone mean?

Telephone means a telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to communicate with each other over a distance; now usually a device having a dial or keypad with numerals for entering a number, etc., to connect with a person, and means (such as a sound or vibration) for alerting one to an incoming call or transmission; also, the handset or receiver of such a device.

What is telephone in Hindi?

Telephone in Hindi is दूरभाष (dūrbhāṣ), टेलीफ़ोन (ṭelīfon), फ़ोन (fon). See Telephone meaning in Hindi.

How do you use telephone in a sentence?

The telephones so constructed were placed in different rooms. […] Upon singing into the telephone, the tones of the voice were reproduced by the instrument in the distant room.

What part of speech is telephone?

Telephone can be a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce telephone?

Telephone is pronounced /ˈtɛlɪfəʊn/ (UK).

What is the plural of telephone?

The plural of telephone is telephones.