telephone number

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telephone number

noun telephone numbers

  1. The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network. Well, that story satisfied old O’Herrin’s curiosity. But he wanted to know the fairy’s telephone number, and when Zobedee fetched her fairylets in by burning a lot of hair, while the grand vizier and the boss eunuch held their noses, he asked her to change the spaniels back into women.

    Similar: number, phone number, digits

  2. figuratively, humorous, in plural A large number. How much is that Rolls Royce? We are talking telephone numbers.

    Similar: phone number

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noun digits assigned to a telephone

Españolnúmero de teléfono
한국어전화번호 jeonhwabeonho
日本語電話番号 denwa bangō
中文電話號碼 /电话号码 diànhuà hàomǎ
हिन्दीटेलीफ़ोन नम्बर ṭelīfon nambar, फ़ोन नम्बर fon nambar
Portuguêsnúmero telefônico, número de telefone
Françaisnuméro de téléphone, numéro
DeutschTelefonnummer
Italianonumero telefonico, numero di telefono
Ελληνικάαριθμός τηλεφώνου arithmós tilefónou, τηλεφωνικός αριθμός tilefonikós arithmós
Românănumăr telefonic, număr de telefon
Русскийно́мер телефо́на nómer telefóna, телефо́нный но́мер telefónnyj nómer
Tiếng Việtsố điện thoại, số phôn, số dây nói
العربيةرَقْم هَاتِف raqm hātif, رَقْم تِلِفُون raqm tilifūn
עבריתמִסְפָּר טֵלֵפוֹן mispár télefon

noun large number

中文大數字 /大数字 dà shùzì

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@misc{telephone_number_2026,
  title = {telephone number},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/telephone%20number},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}