LANDLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landline mean? 

• LANDLINE (noun)
  The noun LANDLINE has 1 sense:

1. a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits

  Familiarity information: LANDLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

land line; landline

Context example:

a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave

Hypernyms ("landline" is a kind of...):

line; phone line; subscriber line; telephone circuit; telephone line (a telephone connection)