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phone -phone
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
phone1
▶noun
- 1 a telephone.
- 2 (phones) informal headphones or earphones.
- 1 call or speak to someone on the telephone.
- 2 (phone it in) US informal work or perform in a desultory fashion.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
phone2
▶noun Phonetics a speech sound.
– origin C19: from Gk phōnē ‘sound, voice’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-phone/fəʊn/
▶combining form
- 1 denoting an instrument using or connected with sound: megaphone.
- 2 denoting a person who uses a specified language: francophone.
– derivatives
-phonic combining form,
-phony combining form.
-phonic combining form,
-phony combining form.
– origin from Gk phōnē ‘sound, voice’.

