Definitions for telephone

telephone tel·e·phone

Spelling: [tel-uh-fohn]
IPA: /ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn/

Telephone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in telephone (eeehlnopt).

Definitions for telephone

noun

  1. an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.

verb (used with object)

  1. to speak to or summon (a person) by telephone.
  2. to send (a message) by telephone.

verb (used without object)

  1. to send a message by telephone.

Origin of telephone

First recorded in 1825-35; tele-1 + -phone

Examples for telephone

Only the maid answered the ringing of the telephone, and his notes were seemingly unheeded.

“I was a nobody there,” Sisler insisted in a telephone interview, during which he slurred his words and acknowledged he was drunk.

A telephone message had already told him of the death of Bill Dozier.

When, finally, he addressed his friend over the telephone, his tones were of the cheerfulest.

After my first trip to his place in Tucson we called one another on the telephone.

“I grew up with Special Forces,” Shadman said during a telephone interview Wednesday.

They'll take the telephone and rouse the towns all along the mountains.

“The clashes are ongoing—street battles,” he said in a telephone interview.

Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.

"That's what they got over the telephone," said Scottie apologetically.

Word Value for telephone
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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