mobile phone
mobile phone — noun
- mobile phonesingular
- mobile phonesplural
1. a pocket-sized telephone that works through radio signals, letting people make a
a pocket-sized telephone that works through radio signals, letting people make and receive calls from almost anywhere without using wires.
Diya forgot her mobile phone at the coffee shop and rushed back to find it.
forget / leave a mobile phone somewhere (place)
Selim used his mobile phone to call a taxi after the late meeting ended.
use a mobile phone to + base verb (call, text)
The teacher asked every student to switch off their mobile phone before the exam.
My mobile phone battery died halfway through the long train ride to Kyoto.
Elena dropped her brand-new mobile phone, and the screen cracked across the corner.
- cellphone
American English term for the same device
- mobile
common British short form in everyday speech
- smartphone
narrower — a mobile phone that also runs apps and browses the internet
- landline
a fixed home or office phone connected by a wire, not portable
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Often shortened to just 'mobile' in British and international English; the everyday American equivalent is 'cell phone' or 'cellphone'.