telephonophile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A lover of telephones.
Example Sentences
- "A kindred spirit to the above, even though less vexatious, is the telephonophile, or telephonomaniac. His is the fondness for lengthy and frequent telephone conversations."
- "Teen-aged telephonophiles are quite another problem. Have you considered giving them a separate wire, or restricting their phone calls during certain hours when you might be expecting a call?"
- "The Queen Mother is a confessed, probably a proud, telephonophile. Recently, from London, she called Colin Stanley-Hill who, as you may have read about 600 times, once worked for her."
- "After we ran that caveat about CD's and the CD marketing, we received a number of phone calls (curiously no letters) suggesting we were: behind the times; out of touch with technical advancements and suspect on a number of grounds. So much for the vocal telephonophile."