telephone number
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- noun
- /ˈtɛlɪˌfoʊn ˈnʌmbər/
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número de teléfono
- Could you please provide your telephone number so I can reach you later?
- dial a telephone number
- give the telephone number
- call a telephone number
And so I had his telephone number and I called him and I told him he I was going to take him to to court on this.
- And so I had his telephone number and I called him and I told him he I was going to take him to to court on this.
- There's a Bank of telephone numbers called the Government Integrate Integrated Number Database that police and emergency services use in Australia.
Examples
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Your telephone number, please.
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What are you doing with her driver's license and telephone number?
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Can I give you the telephone number of my room?
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It's my home telephone number.
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May I have your telephone number, please?
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Oh, what do you want with my telephone number?
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Agencies also note the name and telephone number of a person to contact for further information.
Academic text (2006) -
After several failed attempts at email, I finally tried the telephone number listed in his letter.
Academic text (1993) -
The itinerary should include emergency contacts and telephone numbers for each day of the tour.
Academic text (2001) -
Call this telephone number.
Synonyms
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A set of digits that identifies something like a phone or room
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A set of numbers people use to call each other
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A short word used to give someone's phone number
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a numeric identifier assigned to a telephone' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'telephone' (phone device) with 'number' (numeric identifier). This noun+noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically familiar composition pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Telephone number joins telephone, meaning the phone, and number, meaning a set of digits that points to that phone, because early phone systems gave each line its own numbers so people could dial the exact line. So a telephone number is the series of numbers you use 'to call' someone or 'to be called'.