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tel¹

noun tels

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of telephone number
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of telegraph
  3. abbreviation Abbreviation of telegram

tel²

noun tels

  1. alternative Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”).

TEL³

noun

  1. Tetraethyllead (or tetraethyl lead, tetra-ethyl lead); a gasoline additive to boost octane rating.
  2. A label for telephone number.
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of transporter erector launcher

Tel⁴

proper noun

  1. A nickname for the given name Terry. 2021, Luke Hindmarsh, 3:33 AM "Tel, you alright, mate? It's Jack. Jack, Eddie's brother." He stepped forward and round the chair, one hand reaching towards Terry to reassure him.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: telephonic, phone, telephony, telephone, cellphone, hotline, call, handset, phone-in, trl, prp, eit, phones, ext, cse, femtosecond

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noun abbreviation of telephone number

日本語tel (teru), 電番 denban

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@misc{tel_2026,
  title = {tel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}