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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Police said he gave the 2021 US Open champion a letter, which sources told BBC Sport included his name and telephone number, and took a photograph.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 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

Her interviews with people in early-stage trials suggest they’re pleased to have a direct telephone number for a research nurse, for example.

From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024

“Can he come over? For dinner someday soon? He gave me his telephone number and I gave him ours!”

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye