landline

See also: land line

English

A landline telephone

Alternative forms

• land line

Etymology

From land +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

landline (plural landlines)

1. A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 134:

     The land line was eight months later in its completion than was anticipated, but the fleet of cable ships, sent out by the British Australian Telegraph Company, arrived in Port Darwin at the date appointed by them: November 6th, 1871.

2. (by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless/mobile.
3. (attributively) That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).

Synonyms

• wireline

Translations

fixed telephone communications cable

• Afrikaans: landlyn
• Arabic: هَاتِف ثَابِت (ar) m (hātif ṯābit)
• Bulgarian: телефо́нна ли́ния f (telefónna línija)
• Catalan: telefonia fixa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 固網電信／固网电信 (zh) (gùwǎng diànxìn), 固網／固网 (gùwǎng)

• Czech: pevná linka f
• Esperanto: fiksa telefono, kabla telefono, konduktila telefono
• Estonian: kõnetraat
• Finnish: kiinteä linja, lankalinja
• French: ligne fixe (fr) m
• Galician: telefonía fixa f
• Georgian: მიწისზედა სატელეფონო ხაზი (mic̣iszeda saṭelepono xazi), ფიქსირებული სატელეფონო ხაზი (piksirebuli saṭelepono xazi)
• German: Festnetz (de) n
• Hungarian: vezetékes telefon
• Italian: telefonia fissa (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fasttelefoni (no) n

  Nynorsk: fasttelefoni n

• Portuguese: telefonia fixa f
• Russian: назе́мная ли́ния свя́зи f (nazémnaja línija svjázi), ли́ния проводно́й свя́зи f (línija provodnój svjázi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фиксна линија f

  Roman: fiksna linija f

• Slovak: pevná linka f
• Spanish: telefonía fija f, línea fija f
• Swedish: fast telefoni
• Turkish: telefon hattı (tr)

telephone connected by such a fixed wire

• Afrikaans: landlyntelefoon
• Bulgarian: стациона́рен телефо́н m (stacionáren telefón)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 座機電話／座机电话 (zuòjī diànhuà)

• Czech: pevná linka f, (informal) stabil (cs)
• Esperanto: fiksa telefono, kabla telefono, konduktila telefono
• Finnish: lankapuhelin (fi)
• French: téléphone fixe (fr) m
• Galician: teléfono fixo m
• Georgian: სახლის ტელეფონი (saxlis ṭeleponi), ფიქსირებული ტელეფონი (piksirebuli ṭeleponi), ქალაქის ტელეფონი (kalakis ṭeleponi)
• German: Festnetz (de) n, Festnetztelefon n
• Hungarian: vezetékes telefon
• Indonesian: telepon tetap, telepon rumah
• Italian: telefono fisso m
• Japanese: 固定電話 (ja) (こていでんわ, kotei denwa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fasttelefon (no) m

  Nynorsk: fasttelefon m

• Polish: telefon stacjonarny m
• Portuguese: telefone fixo m
• Russian: стациона́рный телефо́н m (stacionárnyj telefón), городско́й телефо́н m (gorodskój telefón), назе́мный телефо́н m (nazémnyj telefón), фикси́рованный телефо́н m (fiksírovannyj telefón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фиксни телефон m

  Roman: fiksni telefon m

• Spanish: teléfono fijo m
• Swedish: fast telefon (sv) c
• Turkish: sabit hat, sabit telefon
• Welsh: ffôn tŷ m

(attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable

• Hungarian: vezetékes (hu)

See also

• groundline
• hardline