Synonyms for phone
Another word for phone is telephone, telephone set or sound. Below are 10 synonyms and 30 related words across 4 senses.
Also searched as: phoned, phones, phoning.
1. noun: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
- telephone synonyms
- telephone set
2. noun: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- sound synonyms
- speech sound
3. noun: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
- headphone
- earpiece
- earphone
4. verb: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- call synonyms
- call up synonyms
- ring synonyms
- telephone synonyms
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.
- pay-phone
- pay-station
- extension synonyms
- extension phone
- electronic equipment
- desk phone
- telephone extension
- wireless telephone
- dial phone
- dial telephone
- handset
- speakerphone
- radiotelephone
- radiophone
- language unit
- voiced sound
- linguistic unit
- vowel
- glide synonyms
- vowel sound
- consonant synonyms
- phoneme
- aspirate
- ingressive
- semivowel
- orinasal phone
- sonant
- orinasal
- receiver synonyms
- telephone receiver
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Questions people ask
What is another word for phone?
You can say telephone, telephone set, sound, speech sound or headphone instead of phone. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds".
What is the opposite of phone?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for phone; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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