answerphone
English
/ˈæn.sɜː(ɹ)ˌfəʊn/
noun
Definitions
- (British) A telephone containing a built-in device for recording incoming callers’ messages for later retrieval.
Etymology
Compound from English answer + English telephone.
Origin
English
telephone
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- answer English
- answer print English
- answerability English
- answerable English
- answerer English
- answerest English
- answereth English
- answering English
- answerless English
- antitelephone English
- autoanswer English
- foreanswer English
- magnetotelephone English
- misanswer English
- monotelephone English
- multianswer English
- nonanswer English
- radiotelephone English
- reanswer English
- telephonable English
- telephone English
- telephoneless English
- telephonelike English
- telephoner English
- telephonic English
- telephonist English
- telephonophobia English
- telephonophobic English
- telephony English
- untelephoned English
- videotelephone English
- téléphone French
- téléphoner French
- τῆλε Ancient Greek
- テレクラ Japanese
- テレフォン Japanese
- テレホン Japanese
- answere Middle English
- teileafón Irish
- टेलीफ़ोन Hindi
- telefonar Ido
- టెలిఫోను Telugu
- telefon Malay
- တယ်လီဖုန်း Burmese
- telefon Albanian
- טעלעפֿאָן Yiddish
- טלפון Hebrew (modern)
- 德律風 Chinese
- টেলিফোন Bengali
- talboon Marshallese
- ansa Tok Pisin
- telefon Tok Pisin
- telipon Tok Pisin
- terepōno Maori
- terewhōno Maori
- talipun Brunei Malay
- delepwohn Pohnpeian
- ꤓꤢꤧ꤬ꤜꤤ꤬ꤖꤥ꤭ Western Kayah
- answer
- answerer
- reanswer
- telephone
- telephony
- answereth
- misanswer
- answering
- answerest
- nonanswer
- foreanswer
- autoanswer
- answerless
- answerable
- telephonic
- telephoner
- telephonist
- multianswer
- untelephoned
- telephonable
- answer print
- antitelephone
- telephoneless
- monotelephone
- answerability
- telephonelike
- videotelephone
- radiotelephone
- telephonophobia
- telephonophobic
- magnetotelephone