cell phone
See also: cellphone and cell-phone
English edit
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