Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A mobile phone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Brunei, Hawaii, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South-Korea
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noun
A telephone receiver or handset.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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History
From hand + phone. For the sense of mobile phone, compare with Chinese 手機 /手机 (shǒujī, literally “hand machine”) and Korean 손전화 (sonjeonhwa, literally “hand telephone”).
