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smartphone

noun · 1 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

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.

  • UK: /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/
  • US: /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: S M AA1 R T F OW2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, mobile-telephony, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: smart telephone

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mobile phone

Narrower terms: iPhone

History

Etymology

From smart + phone; first usage in the mid-1990s.

Across languages

Translations

121 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: slimfoon — electronic handheld device
  • Arabic: هَاتِف ذَكِيّ (hātif ḏakiyy) — electronic handheld device
  • Arabic: سِمَارْت فُون (simārt fūn) — electronic handheld device
  • Armenian: սմարթֆոն (smartʻfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Bashkir: смартфон (smartfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Belarusian: смартфо́н (smartfón) — electronic handheld device
  • Bengali: স্মার্টফোন (śãrṭophōn) — electronic handheld device
  • Bulgarian: сма́ртфон (smártfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Catalan: telèfon intel·ligent — electronic handheld device
  • Chinese Cantonese: 智能手機 /智能手机 (zi3 nang4 sau2 gei1) — electronic handheld device
  • Chinese Cantonese: 智能電話 /智能电话 — electronic handheld device
  • Chinese: 智慧型手機仔 /智慧型手机仔 (tì-hūi-hêng chhiú-ki-á) — electronic handheld device
  • Chinese: 巧手機仔 /巧手机仔 (khiáu-chhiú-ki-á) — electronic handheld device
  • Chinese: 巧機仔 /巧机仔 (khiáu-ki-á) — electronic handheld device
  • Chinese Mandarin: 智能手機 /智能手机 (zhìnéng shǒujī) — electronic handheld device
  • Chinese Mandarin: 智慧型手機 /智慧型手机 (zhìhuìxíng shǒujī) — electronic handheld device
  • Cornish: fon konnyk — electronic handheld device
  • Cornish: klapkodh gonnyk — electronic handheld device
  • Czech: chytrý telefon — electronic handheld device
  • Czech: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Danish: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Dutch: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Esperanto: saĝtelefono — electronic handheld device
  • Esperanto: retpoŝtelefono — electronic handheld device
  • Esperanto: smartfono — electronic handheld device
  • Esperanto: poŝtelefono — electronic handheld device
  • Estonian: nutitelefon — electronic handheld device
  • Faroese: snildfon — electronic handheld device
  • Finnish: älypuhelin — electronic handheld device
  • French: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • French: ordiphone — electronic handheld device
  • French: supertéléphone — electronic handheld device
  • French: téléphone intelligent — electronic handheld device
  • West-Frisian: snoadfoan — electronic handheld device
  • Galician: teléfono intelixente — electronic handheld device
  • Georgian: სმარტფონი (smarṭponi) — electronic handheld device
  • German: Smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Greek: σμάρτφον (smártfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Hebrew: סמארטפון (smártfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Hebrew: טלפון חכם (télefon khakhám) — electronic handheld device
  • Hindi: स्मार्टफ़ोन (smārṭfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Hindi: स्मार्टफोन (smārṭphon) — electronic handheld device
  • Hungarian: okostelefon — electronic handheld device
  • Hungarian: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Icelandic: snjallsími — electronic handheld device
  • Indonesian: telepon cerdas — electronic handheld device
  • Indonesian: telepon pintar — electronic handheld device
  • Irish: fón cliste — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: telefono intelligente — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: telefonino intelligente — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: cellulare intelligente — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: superfonino — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: supercellulare — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: furbofono — electronic handheld device
  • Italian: furbofonino — electronic handheld device
  • Japanese: スマートフォン (sumātofon) — electronic handheld device
  • Japanese: スマートホン (sumātohon) — electronic handheld device
  • Japanese: スマホ (sumaho) — electronic handheld device
  • Kazakh: смартфон (smartfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Khmer: ស្មាតហ្វូន (smaatfoun) — electronic handheld device
  • K'iche': smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • K'iche': smartpon — electronic handheld device
  • K'iche': smartfon — electronic handheld device
  • Korean: 스마트폰 (seumateupon) — electronic handheld device
  • Kyrgyz: смартфон (smartfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Lakota: omásʼapȟela — electronic handheld device
  • Lao: ສະມາດໂຟນ (sa māt fōn) — electronic handheld device
  • Latvian: viedtālrunis — electronic handheld device
  • Lithuanian: išmanusis telefonas — electronic handheld device
  • Macedonian: паметен телефон (pameten telefon) — electronic handheld device
  • Macedonian: смартфон (smartfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Malay: telefon pintar — electronic handheld device
  • Malay: telefon bijak — electronic handheld device
  • Manx: çhellvane aghtal — electronic handheld device
  • Māori: waea atamai — electronic handheld device
  • Mongolian: смартфон (smartfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Mongolian: ухаалаг утас (uxaalag utas) — electronic handheld device
  • Mongolian: ухаалаг гар утас (uxaalag gar utas) — electronic handheld device
  • Nepali: स्मार्टफोन (smārṭphon) — electronic handheld device
  • Norwegian Bokmål: smarttelefon — electronic handheld device
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: smarttelefon — electronic handheld device
  • Iranian Persian: تِلِفُنِ هوشْمَنْد (telefon-e hušmand) — electronic handheld device
  • Iranian Persian: گوشیِ هوشْمَنْد (guši-ye hušmand) — electronic handheld device
  • Iranian Persian: اِسْمارْت فون (esmârt fon) — electronic handheld device
  • Iranian Persian: سِمارْت فون (semârt fon) — electronic handheld device
  • Polish: smartfon — electronic handheld device
  • Portuguese: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Romanian: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Russian: смартфо́н (smartfón) — electronic handheld device
  • Scottish Gaelic: fòn tapaidh — electronic handheld device
  • Serbo-Croatian: паметни телефон — electronic handheld device
  • Serbo-Croatian: смартфон — electronic handheld device
  • Serbo-Croatian: pametni telefon — electronic handheld device
  • Serbo-Croatian: smartfon — electronic handheld device
  • Slovak: smartfón — electronic handheld device
  • Slovak: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Slovak: inteligentný telefón — electronic handheld device
  • Slovak: chytrý telefón — electronic handheld device
  • Slovene: pametni telefon — electronic handheld device
  • Spanish: teléfono inteligente — electronic handheld device
  • Swahili: simu janja — electronic handheld device
  • Swedish: smarttelefon — electronic handheld device
  • Swedish: smart telefon — electronic handheld device
  • Swedish: smartphone — electronic handheld device
  • Swedish: smartmobil — electronic handheld device
  • Swedish: smart mobil — electronic handheld device
  • Swedish: pekmobil — electronic handheld device
  • Tamil: நுண்ணறி பேசி (nuṇṇaṟi pēci) — electronic handheld device
  • Tatar: смартфон (smartfon) — electronic handheld device
  • Thai: สมาร์ตโฟน (sà-máat-foon) — electronic handheld device
  • Turkish: akıllı telefon — electronic handheld device
  • Ukrainian: смартфо́н (smartfón) — electronic handheld device
  • Urdu: اِسْمارْٹ فون (ismārṭ fon) — electronic handheld device
  • Uzbek: smartfon — electronic handheld device
  • Vietnamese: điện thoại thông minh — electronic handheld device
  • Vietnamese: điện thoại tinh khôn — electronic handheld device
  • Vietnamese: phôn khôn — electronic handheld device
  • Vietnamese: smát-phôn — electronic handheld device
  • Walloon: sûtifone — electronic handheld device
  • Welsh: ffôn clyfar — electronic handheld device
Real reading context

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