telephone number

NOUN

assigned number for telephone

Synonyms

STRONGEST

phone number

WEAK

800 number cell phone number fax number

Example Sentences

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He didn’t have a telephone number, so I was just waiting for eight hours in front of his door until he came home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

She added that should "never had happened" as they had her address, telephone number, and details of her symptoms.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

Provocatively, Neon designed a simple black billboard that featured an extreme closeup of an unrecognizable Cage alongside a telephone number and release date.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025

Ellison and Straczynski didn’t meet until the late 1970s, when the latter decided to call the telephone number in one of Ellison’s books.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024

Miss Celia spells out her telephone number like a floor- mopping jingle, “Emerson two-sixty-six-oh-nine!”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett