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landline
[ land-lahyn ]
noun
- a circuit of wire or cable connecting two ground locations.
- a telecommunications line, service, or connection that uses wire running over land or underground to connect to a network:
telegraph and telephone landlines.
- Also called land·line tel·e·phone [land, -lahyn , tel, -, uh, -fohn],. a telephone that is connected by wire to a network. Compare smartphone ( def ), dumbphone ( def ).
- Citizens Band Radio Slang. a telephone.
Example Sentences
It allowed people to make computer-to-computer calls free, and then became the way users could make low cost calls to landlines and mobiles to people in other parts of the world.
They said I might get a call from Windsor in England on a landline, and I was like 'sure!'.
Maybe you’d meet somebody out, remotely checking the answering machine plugged into your landline for messages.
As part of the nonpartisan survey, San Francisco-based David Binder Research interviewed voters by cellphone, landline and online, in English and Spanish, between March 19 and 24.
In some cases, the numbers ring to landlines that burned down.
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