cell phone

See also: cellphone and cell-phone

English

Alternative forms

cellphone (mainly US and Canada)
cell-phone (mainly US and Canada)

Etymology

From cellular phone.

Noun

cell phone (plural cell phones)

(chiefly US and Canada) 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 (mainly Asia)
mobile (mainly UK and Australia)
mobile phone
sail foam (slang, humorous)
wireless phone

Hypernyms

See also Thesaurus:phone

Translations

mobile phone — see mobile phone

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