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See also: cellphone and cell-phone
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- cellphone (mainly US, Canada, Philippines)
- cell-phone (mainly US and Canada)
Etymology
[edit]From cellular phone.
Noun
[edit]cell phone (plural cell phones)
- (chiefly Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.
Synonyms
[edit]- cell
- cellular mobile, cellular, cellular telephone, cellular phone
- handphone (mainly Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea)
- mobile (mainly UK and Australia)
- mobile phone
- sail foam (slang, humorous)
- wireless phone
Hypernyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:phone
Translations
[edit]mobile phone — see mobile phone