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A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
տաքսաֆոն
(takʻsafon)
— a public telephone
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Bulgarian:
телефонен автомат
(telefonen avtomat)
— a public telephone
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Catalan:
telèfon públic
— a public telephone
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Chinese Mandarin:
公用電話 /公用电话
(gōngyòng diànhuà)
— a public telephone
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Danish:
mønttelefon
— a public telephone
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Finnish:
rahapuhelin
— a public telephone
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Finnish:
yleisöpuhelin
— a public telephone
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German:
Münztelefon
— a public telephone
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German:
Münzfernsprecher
— a public telephone
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Hungarian:
nyilvános telefon
— a public telephone
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Indonesian:
telepon umum
— a public telephone
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Irish:
táillefón
— a public telephone
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Japanese:
公衆電話
(kōshū denwa)
— a public telephone
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Korean:
공중전화
(gongjungjeonhwa)
— a public telephone
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Polish:
telefon samoinkasujący
— a public telephone
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Polish:
automat telefoniczny
— a public telephone
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Polish:
automat
— a public telephone
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Portuguese:
orelhão
— a public telephone
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Russian:
таксофо́н
(taksofón)
— a public telephone
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Russian:
телефо́н-автома́т
(telefón-avtomát)
— a public telephone
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Russian:
обще́ственный телефо́н
(obščéstvennyj telefón)
— a public telephone
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Spanish:
teléfono público
— a public telephone
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Ukrainian:
таксофо́н
(taksofón)
— a public telephone
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Welsh:
ffôn talu
— a public telephone
