payphone

pay phone

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- /-foʊn/
- /ˈpeɪ.fəʊn/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- /-foʊn/

Definitions of payphone word

noun payphone a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call. 1
countable noun payphone A payphone is a telephone which you need to put coins or a card in before you can make a call. Payphones are usually in public places. 0
noun payphone a public telephone operated by coins or a phonecard 0

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Origin of payphone

First appearance:

before 1935

One of the 8% newest English words

First recorded in 1935-40

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Payphone

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Payphone

payphone popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 47% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

payphone usage trend in Literature

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