Synonyms for call
Another word for call is phone call, telephone call or cry. Below are 13 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: called, calls.
1. noun: a method of contacting a person by phone
- phone call
- telephone call
2. noun: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- cry synonyms
- shout synonyms
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- outcry synonyms
- vociferation
3. noun: a demand
- claim synonyms
4. noun: the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- song synonyms
- birdsong
- birdcall
5. noun: a brief social visit
6. noun: a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- margin call
7. noun: a demand for a show of hands in a card game
8. noun: a request
9. noun: an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
10. noun: a visit in an official or professional capacity
11. noun: (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
12. noun: the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- call option
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- call-in synonyms
- call-back synonyms
- local call
- conference call
- long distance
- long-distance call
- wake-up call
- telephone synonyms
- collect call
- trunk call
- crank call
- telephony
- robocall
- blue murder
- bird synonyms
- noise synonyms
- war cry
- battle cry
- screaming synonyms
- scream synonyms
- yelling
- shouting
- boo synonyms
- roar synonyms
- roaring synonyms
- raspberry synonyms
- hue and cry
- rallying cry
- demand synonyms
- two-note call
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Questions people ask
What is another word for call?
You can say phone call, telephone call, cry, shout or yell instead of call. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a method of contacting a person by phone".
What is the opposite of call?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for call; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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