Standard Lemma guide

videophone

noun · 2 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.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: vidphone, viewphone, picturephone, visionphone

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions.

A cell phone with such capability. Used to distinguish from stills-only camera cell phones and camera-less cell phones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: vidphone, viewphone, picturephone, visionphone

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From video- + phone.

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 視頻電話 /视频电话 (shìpín diànhuà) — type of telephone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 電視電話 /电视电话 (diànshì diànhuà) — type of telephone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 可視電話 /可视电话 (kěshì diànhuà) — type of telephone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 視像電話 /视像电话 (shìxiàng diànhuà) — type of telephone
  • Danish: videotelefon — type of telephone
  • Dutch: beeldtelefoon — type of telephone
  • Finnish: videopuhelin — type of telephone
  • French: visiophone — type of telephone
  • German: Bildtelefon — type of telephone
  • Hungarian: videotelefon — type of telephone
  • Irish: físeafón — type of telephone
  • Italian: videotelefono — type of telephone
  • Japanese: テレビ電話 (terebi denwa) — type of telephone
  • Korean: 비디오폰 (bidiopon) — type of telephone
  • Korean: 영상전화 (yeongsangjeonhwa) — type of telephone
  • Norwegian Bokmål: videotelefon — type of telephone
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: videotelefon — type of telephone
  • Polish: wideofon — type of telephone
  • Portuguese: videofone — type of telephone
  • Spanish: videófono — type of telephone
  • Welsh: fideoffon — type of telephone