Thesaurus:telephone

Thesaurus

telephone

English

Verb

Sense: to call a person using a telephone

Synonyms

• telephone
• call
• call up
• dial up
• drop a line
• get on the horn
• give someone a bell
• give someone a buzz
• give someone a call
• give someone a jingle
• give someone a ring
• give someone a tinkle
• phone    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ring
• ring up

Hypernyms

• communicate    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• dial

Further reading

• “telephone” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “telephone” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.