Definitions for phone

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phone phone

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IPA: /foʊn/

Phone is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in phone (ehnop).

Definitions for phone

noun

1. telephone (def 1).
2. a portable electronic telephone device, as a cell phone, mobile phone, or smartphone.
3. a speech sound: .

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 phone

First recorded in 1880-85; by shortening

Examples for phone

My wife was talking to her on the phone, and I just kinda found the courage to ask her.

He was working with trembling fingers at the phone where Sykes had pointed.

Eventually Morrow was released with no money, vehicle, or phone.

You have seen the Greek word "phone," which means the voice, before.

The phone is apparently the one he took from his girlfriend after shooting her outside Baltimore and heading for New York.

Now it can't open on my phone due to what appears to be software incompatibility.

This number the spectator dialed on the phone Mr. Grace carried.

His reason for wanting to see me, he said, he'd rather not give me over the 'phone.

He rose to leave, but paused while Colonel Boynton answered the phone.

“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.