cell phone
See also: cellphone and cell-phone
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- cellphone (mainly US and Canada)
- cell-phone (mainly US and Canada)
EtymologyEdit
From cellular phone.
NounEdit
cell phone (plural cell phones)
- (chiefly US and Canada) 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.
SynonymsEdit
- cell
- cellular mobile, cellular, cellular telephone, cellular phone
- handphone (mainly Asia)
- mobile (mainly UK and Australia)
- mobile phone
- wireless phone
HypernymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:phone
TranslationsEdit
mobile phone — see mobile phone