smartphone

noun

smart·​phone ˈsmärt-ˌfōn 

variants or less commonly smart phone

plural smartphones also smart phones

: a cell phone that includes additional software functions (such as email or an Internet browser)

Examples of smartphone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The system allows patients to check in and pay via smartphones. — Masayuki Oi Japan News, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026

Apple had introduced the iPhone just two months earlier, and Brown concluded that his company had no future in smartphones, which were losing hundreds of millions of dollars a quarter. — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

The attack becomes even more dangerous as victims use their personal smartphones or apps, where organizational security controls may be less restrictive. — Benjamin Claeys, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

The smartphone of cosmology Cosmology’s superstar is the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, which formed some 400,000 years after the Big Bang. — Cara Giovanetti, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1996, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for smartphone

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

Kids Definition

smartphone

noun

smart·​phone ˈsmärt-ˌfōn 

: a cell phone that includes additional functions (as email or an Internet browser)