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téléphone meaning

FR[telefɔn]
WTelephone
  • A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
  • In 1876, Scottish emigrant Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice. This instrument was further developed by many others.
  • The essential elements of a telephone are a microphone (transmitter) to speak into and an earphone (receiver) which reproduces the voice in a distant location.
EN telephone
téléphone
téléphone
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Morphemes
      • Prefixes
        • Words by prefix
          • Words prefixed with télé-
        • Suffixes
          • Words by suffix
            • Words suffixed with -phone
        • Nouns
          • Countable nouns
            • Masculine nouns
            • Verbs
              • Verb forms
            Related Links:
            1. fr téléphones
            2. fr téléphoner
            3. fr téléphonez
            4. fr téléphonent
            5. fr téléphonera
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of téléphone for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "téléphone" is a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe and a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a masculine noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
            Definiteness: Level 1
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