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

“Don’t answer a telephone number that you don’t recognize,” Sheinbaum warned people last week.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

The telephone number on his medical records also suggested Mr Last was living with his parents and that he was therefore eligible for the vaccine.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024

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

Pattie had been given a telephone number for the Kern County Department of Children's Services.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan