Phone
Phone noun - Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear.
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Synonyms for Phone
Telephone receiver and phone are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telephone receiver" instead a noun "Phone".
Telephone receiver
Telephone receiver noun - Earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds.
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Synonyms for Telephone receiver
Phone and telephone receiver are semantically related. You can use "Phone" instead a noun phrase "Telephone receiver".
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- The song ends with the sound of a telephone receiver being hooked up...which implies that Corey Taylor had spent the last five minutes screaming the lyrics down the phone line.
Source: Last Note Nightmare - Max and Sally and the Phenomenal Phone by Milos Macourek and illustrated/animated by Adolf Born: Two three-graders and friends, Max and Sally, help a stranger to find his lost glasses, and as a reward, he gifts them a seemingly ordinary torn-off telephone receiver.
Source: Supernatural Phone -
Pull back to reveal that Ren has a telephone receiver and a big hunk of cheese strapped to his head, as Stimpy introduces the Cheese-O-Phone.
Source: Close-Up on Head
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Telephone receiver and Phone. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/phone/telephone_receiver
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