Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "phone" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

at hotel desk desktop house motel neighbor's house office rest area

Capable Of

make calls ring incessantly ring loudly ring three times ring until answered

Derived Terms

Googlephone I got 2 phones Jesus phone Obama phone airphone answer phone bag phone banana phone bar phone bat phone bat-phone batphone brick phone burn phone burner phone buzzer phone camera phone cameraphone camphone can I use your phone candlestick phone candy bar phone car phone car-phone cardphone carphone cell phone lot cell-phone cellular phone computerphone cordless phone cryptophone dataphone deskphone diaphone diphone door phone doorphone dumbphone earphone entry phone entry-phone entryphone eyephone feature phone featurephone flip-phone freephone handphone have more chins than a Chinese phone book headphone hold the phone home phone house phone housephone iPhone interphone isophone keyphone miniphone money phone multiphone netphone on the phone pass the phone pay phone payphone phablet phlog phlogging phonable phonal phone ahead phone bank phone book phone booth phone box phone call phone card phone hacking phone home phone home phone in phone jack phone jail phone line phone monkey phone number phone sex phone survey phone tag phone tree phone up phone zombie phone-free phone-in phone-in show phone-out phone-sex phoneaholic phonebook phonebox phonecall phonecam phonecard phoneful phoneless phonelike phonemaker phonemark phoneography phonepost phoneward phonewise phoneword phonicate phreak phreaking phub pick up the phone picturephone pocketphone polyphone pornophone portable phone rotary phone satellite phone satphone screenphone slide phone slider phone smart phone softphone speakerphone stick phone superphone swivel phone symphonious textphone touch phone touch-phone touchphone trackerphone trap phone trimphone triphone ultraphone unphoned videophone viewphone visionphone visiphone watchphone webphone what is your phone number what's your phone number wireless phone world phone wristphone

Etymologically Related To

fame

Context

phonetics uk

First Subevents

find phone number

Has Property

one kind of electric machine

Part Of (Holonyms)

phone box telephone booth telephone box telephone kiosk

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

device electro-acoustic transducer electronic equipment language unit linguistic unit telecommunicate

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

cell phone cellular cellular phone cordless phone dial phone dumbphone feature phone flip phone foldable phone mobile mobile phone mobile telephone smartphone

Type Of (IsA)

abbreviation of telephone another way of saying telephone communication device device electrical device form of communication language unit machine manufactured device short way of saying telephone shortened form of telephone telephone tool tool to call

Parts (Meronyms)

cord dial handset microphone ringer speaker

Part Of

utterance

Related Terms

phoneme phonetic phonetically phonetics phonology

Related Terms

apple booths call call with caller caller id calling calling device calling people calls cell cell communication cell device cell one cells cellular communication communication cell communication device communication devise communication instrument communication tool conversation desk device devise dial dial tone distance everyone everyone has for talking has id instrument kitchen land land line language like like cell line making making calls mobile mobile cell mobile sometimes numbers office office desk people phone sex phone tag phoneme phonetic phonetically phonetics phonology real time receiver released released today ring ring tone ringer ringing shorter shorter version software sometimes sound speaker talking talking device telecommunication telecommunications telecommunications device telephone today tone tool transmit typically typically cell version voice voice communication

Similar Terms

call

Synonym Network

call earphone telephone

Used For

calling calling friends communicating communication make call talking

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.