Synonym: call, call up, phone, ring, telephone set, telephony. Similar words: elephant, phone, telescope, telecommunications, honor, photo, catch on, honestly. Meaning: ['telɪfəʊn] 
n. 1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds 2. transmitting speech at a distance. v. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone.
n. 1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds 2. transmitting speech at a distance. v. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. 
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181. For years Bell Telephone had a monopoly on telephone services in the US.
182. All the reporters rushed to the telephone to call in their stories when the game was over.
183. I'll telephone and that will save me writing a letter.
184. She got a shock when she saw the telephone bill.
185. The telephone has been ringing continually in the office all morning.
186. A telephone caller said there was a bomb in the hotel but it was just a hoax.
187. She hunched over the desk, telephone cradled at her neck.
188. We're not on the telephone, so you'll have to come round to the house.
189. Barbara will man the telephone switchboard till we get back.
More similar words: elephant, phone, telescope, telecommunications, honor, photo, catch on, honestly, touch on, metaphor, switch on, photograph, tell, photographer, photography, tell on, lately, privately, satellite, desperately, ultimately, fortunately, accurately, definitely, deliberately, approximately, elect, be left, eleven, select.