cell phone

See also: cellphone and cell-phone

English

Alternative forms

• cellphone (mainly US, Canada, Philippines)
• cell-phone (mainly US and Canada)

Etymology

Clipping of cellular phone.

Noun

cell phone (plural cell phones)

1. (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

• 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

Derived terms

• cell phone lot

Hypernyms

• See also Thesaurus:phone

Translations

mobile phone — see mobile phone