cell phone

== English == === Alternative forms === cellphone (mainly US, Canada, Philippines) cell-phone (mainly US and Canada) === Etymology === Clipped compound of cellular phone. === Pronunciation === === Noun === cell phone (plural cell phones) (chiefly Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection. ==== Synonyms ==== cell cellular mobile, cellular, cellular telephone, cellular phone handphone (mainly Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea) mobile (mainly UK and Australia) mobile phone sail foam (slang, humorous) wireless phone ==== Hypernyms ==== See also Thesaurus:phone ==== Derived terms ==== cell-phoned cell phone lot ==== Translations ==== === Verb === cell phone (third-person singular simple present cell phones, present participle cell phoning, simple past and past participle cell phoned) Alternative form of cellphone.