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FRENCH TELEPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French telephone mean? 

FRENCH TELEPHONE (noun)
  The noun FRENCH TELEPHONE has 1 sense:

1. telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handleplay

  Familiarity information: FRENCH TELEPHONE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRENCH TELEPHONE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

French telephone; handset

Hypernyms ("French telephone" is a kind of...):

phone; telephone; telephone set (electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds)

Meronyms (parts of "French telephone"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)


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