answerphone

/ˈæn.sɜː(ɹ)ˌfəʊn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.85 in modern English

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noun

British usage

"I keep trying to call her, but all I get is the answerphone."
"That was the bloody answerphone. She must have left already."
"It started with a message in my office on that fiendish modern invention, second in its monstrousness only to the television, the answerphone."

From answer + (tele)phone.

answerphones (plural) ansaphone (alternative) ansafone (alternative) answer phone (alternative)

answering machine

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How do you pronounce answerphone?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈæn.sɜː(ɹ)ˌfəʊn/.

What does answerphone mean?

Where does answerphone come from?

From answer + (tele)phone.

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