te
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phone
Plural
telephones
1
a communication device used for talking to people who are far away and also have a similar device
- He needs to recharge his telephone battery.
- She picked up the telephone to call her friend.
- She received a call from an unknown number on her telephone.
- The telephone rang, but no one answered.
- They recorded the conversation on the telephone for future reference.
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2
the part of the telephone that one holds, speaks into, and hears responses from
3
transmitting speech at a distance
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