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landline

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈlændˌlaɪn/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: L AE1 N D L AY2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A telephone connected by such a fixed wire that allows multiple phones to operate simultaneously on the same phone number, specifically not cellular/mobile.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: attributive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: land line

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: telephone line, phone line, telephone circuit, subscriber line, line

History

Etymology

From land + line.

Across languages

Translations

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: landlyn — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Arabic: هَاتِف ثَابِت (hātif ṯābit) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Bulgarian: телефо́нна ли́ния (telefónna línija) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Catalan: telefonia fixa — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Chinese Mandarin: 固網電信 /固网电信 (gùwǎng diànxìn) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Chinese Mandarin: 固網 /固网 (gùwǎng) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Czech: pevná linka — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Esperanto: fiksa telefono — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Esperanto: kabla telefono — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Esperanto: konduktila telefono — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Estonian: kõnetraat — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Finnish: kiinteä linja — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Finnish: lankalinja — fixed telephone communications cable
  • French: ligne fixe — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Galician: telefonía fixa — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Georgian: მიწისზედა სატელეფონო ხაზი (mic̣iszeda saṭelepono xazi) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Georgian: ფიქსირებული სატელეფონო ხაზი (piksirebuli saṭelepono xazi) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • German: Festnetz — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Hungarian: vezetékes telefon — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Italian: telefonia fissa — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fasttelefoni — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fasttelefoni — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Portuguese: telefonia fixa — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Russian: назе́мная ли́ния свя́зи (nazémnaja línija svjázi) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Russian: ли́ния проводно́й свя́зи (línija provodnój svjázi) — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Serbo-Croatian: фиксна линија — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Serbo-Croatian: fiksna linija — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Slovak: pevná linka — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Spanish: telefonía fija — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Spanish: línea fija — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Swedish: fast telefoni — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Turkish: telefon hattı — fixed telephone communications cable
  • Afrikaans: landlyntelefoon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Bulgarian: стациона́рен телефо́н (stacionáren telefón) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Chinese Mandarin: 座機電話 /座机电话 (zuòjī diànhuà) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Czech: pevná linka — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Czech: stabil — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Esperanto: fiksa telefono — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Esperanto: kabla telefono — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Esperanto: konduktila telefono — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Finnish: lankapuhelin — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • French: téléphone fixe — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Galician: teléfono fixo — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Georgian: სახლის ტელეფონი (saxlis ṭeleponi) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Georgian: ფიქსირებული ტელეფონი (piksirebuli ṭeleponi) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Georgian: ქალაქის ტელეფონი (kalakis ṭeleponi) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • German: Festnetz — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • German: Festnetztelefon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Hungarian: vezetékes telefon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Indonesian: telepon tetap — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Indonesian: telepon rumah — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Italian: telefono fisso — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Japanese: 固定電話 (kotei denwa) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fasttelefon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fasttelefon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Polish: telefon stacjonarny — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Portuguese: telefone fixo — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Russian: стациона́рный телефо́н (stacionárnyj telefón) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Russian: городско́й телефо́н (gorodskój telefón) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Russian: назе́мный телефо́н (nazémnyj telefón) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Russian: фикси́рованный телефо́н (fiksírovannyj telefón) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Serbo-Croatian: фиксни телефон — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Serbo-Croatian: fiksni telefon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Spanish: teléfono fijo — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Swedish: fast telefon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Turkish: sabit hat — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Turkish: sabit telefon — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Ukrainian: стаціона́рний телефо́н (stacionárnyj telefón) — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Welsh: ffôn tŷ — telephone connected by such a fixed wire
  • Hungarian: vezetékes — (attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable