phone

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəʊ̯n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /foʊ̯n/

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• Rhymes: -əʊn

Clipping of telephone; attested by 1884.

• 'phone (dated)

phone (plural phones)

1. A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.

   Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.

   My phone ran out of battery.

   There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.

• phonecall
• phoneless
• phone sex
• phone tag
• phonicate
• speakerphone

• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: फ़ोन (fon)
  • Urdu: فون‎ (fon)
• → Irish: fón
• → Portuguese: fone
• → Welsh: ffôn

• Thesaurus:phone

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

1. (transitive) To call (someone) using a telephone.

   Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.

• call, ring, telephone

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

phone (plural phones)

1. (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

• phonal

• phonetic
• phonetically
• phonetics
• phonology
• phoneme

• nepho-, pheno-, pheon

• IPA^(key): /fɔn/

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phone m (plural phones)

1. phon (a unit of apparent loudness)
2. (linguistics) phone

phone

1. inflection of phoner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “phone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.