cell phone

noun

variants or less commonly cellphone

ˈsel-ˌfōn 

plural cell phones also cellphones

: a portable usually cordless telephone for use in a cellular system

Examples of cell phone in a Sentence

Call me on my cell phone.

Recent Examples on the Web

The other has been hidden by banning media coverage, so the world has seen nothing but cell phone videos made by Palestinian journalists risking their lives to record them. — Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026

Three armed men went on a stickup spree in Central Park Thursday night, robbing six people of their cell phones at gunpoint in four separate muggings, cops said. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026

The attack happened on Saturday outside After School Matters at Gately Park, at 102nd and Cottage Grove in the Pullman neighborhood, in front of other parents waiting to pick up their kids, and was caught on cell phone video. — Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

But this time, the debate is not about the widespread push for cell phone bans that have dominated recent legislative sessions and school policies. — Erin Mote, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1983, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cell phone

• alone
• atone
• backbone
• bemoan
• bluestone
• breastbone
• brownstone
• capstone
• cheekbone
• condone
• curbstone
• cyclone

Kids Definition

cell phone

noun

: a portable cellular telephone