"landline" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-landline.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-landline.wav [US] Forms: landlines [plural]
Etymology: land + line Etymology templates: {{compound|en|land|line}} land + line Head templates: {{en-noun}} landline (plural landlines)
  1. A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable. Translations (fixed telephone communications cable): landlyn (Afrikaans), هَاتِف ثَابِت (hātif ṯābit) [masculine] (Arabic), телефо́нна ли́ния (telefónna línija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), telefonia fixa [feminine] (Catalan), 固網電信 (Chinese Mandarin), 固网电信 (gùwǎng diànxìn) (Chinese Mandarin), 固網 (Chinese Mandarin), 固网 (gùwǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), pevná linka [feminine] (Czech), fiksa telefono (Esperanto), kabla telefono (Esperanto), konduktila telefono (Esperanto), kõnetraat (Estonian), kiinteä linja (Finnish), lankalinja (Finnish), ligne fixe [masculine] (French), telefonía fixa [feminine] (Galician), მიწისზედა სატელეფონო ხაზი (mic̣iszeda saṭelepono xazi) (Georgian), ფიქსირებული სატელეფონო ხაზი (piksirebuli saṭelepono xazi) (Georgian), Festnetz [neuter] (German), vezetékes telefon (Hungarian), telefonia fissa [feminine] (Italian), fasttelefoni [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), fasttelefoni [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), telefonia fixa [feminine] (Portuguese), назе́мная ли́ния свя́зи (nazémnaja línija svjázi) [feminine] (Russian), ли́ния проводно́й свя́зи (línija provodnój svjázi) [feminine] (Russian), фиксна линија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), fiksna linija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pevná linka [feminine] (Slovak), telefonía fija [feminine] (Spanish), línea fija [feminine] (Spanish), fast telefoni (Swedish), telefon hattı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-landline-en-noun-0wdwWPxD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English retronyms Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 14 11 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 80 12 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 67 19 15 Disambiguation of English retronyms: 59 21 20 Disambiguation of 'fixed telephone communications cable': 85 9 6
  2. (by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless/mobile. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Telephony
    Sense id: en-landline-en-noun-dTASTsNm Disambiguation of Telephony: 27 59 14
  3. (attributively) That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.). Tags: attributive
    Sense id: en-landline-en-noun-O6Y56rlr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wireline, land line Related terms: groundline, hardline Translations ((attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable): vezetékes (Hungarian) Translations (telephone connected by such a fixed wire): landlyntelefoon (Afrikaans), стациона́рен телефо́н (stacionáren telefón) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 座機電話 (Chinese Mandarin), 座机电话 (zuòjī diànhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), pevná linka [feminine] (Czech), stabil [informal] (Czech), fiksa telefono (Esperanto), kabla telefono (Esperanto), konduktila telefono (Esperanto), lankapuhelin (Finnish), téléphone fixe [masculine] (French), teléfono fixo [masculine] (Galician), სახლის ტელეფონი (saxlis ṭeleponi) (Georgian), ფიქსირებული ტელეფონი (piksirebuli ṭeleponi) (Georgian), ქალაქის ტელეფონი (kalakis ṭeleponi) (Georgian), Festnetz [neuter] (German), Festnetztelefon [neuter] (German), vezetékes telefon (Hungarian), telepon tetap (Indonesian), telepon rumah (Indonesian), telefono fisso [masculine] (Italian), 固定電話 (kotei denwa) (alt: こていでんわ) (Japanese), fasttelefon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fasttelefon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), telefon stacjonarny [masculine] (Polish), telefone fixo [masculine] (Portuguese), стациона́рный телефо́н (stacionárnyj telefón) [masculine] (Russian), городско́й телефо́н (gorodskój telefón) [masculine] (Russian), назе́мный телефо́н (nazémnyj telefón) [masculine] (Russian), фикси́рованный телефо́н (fiksírovannyj telefón) [masculine] (Russian), фиксни телефон [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), fiksni telefon [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), teléfono fijo [masculine] (Spanish), fast telefon [common-gender] (Swedish), sabit hat (Turkish), sabit telefon (Turkish), ffôn tŷ [masculine] (Welsh)
Disambiguation of '(attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable': 33 35 32 Disambiguation of 'telephone connected by such a fixed wire': 10 49 41

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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "telepon rumah"
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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
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      "roman": "kotei denwa",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "固定電話"
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    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
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      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "fasttelefon"
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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "telefon stacjonarny"
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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "telefone fixo"
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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "стациона́рный телефо́н"
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    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorodskój telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городско́й телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nazémnyj telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "назе́мный телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fiksírovannyj telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "фикси́рованный телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
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        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fiksni telefon"
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    {
      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
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      "_dis1": "10 49 41",
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      "lang": "Turkish",
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      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "_dis1": "33 35 32",
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      "word": "wireline"
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "landlyn"
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "هَاتِف ثَابِت"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "telefónna línija",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "телефо́нна ли́ния"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "telefonia fixa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "固網電信"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gùwǎng diànxìn",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "固网电信"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "固網"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "gùwǎng",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "固网"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pevná linka"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "fiksa telefono"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "kabla telefono"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "konduktila telefono"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "kõnetraat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "kiinteä linja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "lankalinja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ligne fixe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "telefonía fixa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mic̣iszeda saṭelepono xazi",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "მიწისზედა სატელეფონო ხაზი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "piksirebuli saṭelepono xazi",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "ფიქსირებული სატელეფონო ხაზი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Festnetz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "vezetékes telefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "telefonia fissa"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "fasttelefoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "fasttelefoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "telefonia fixa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nazémnaja línija svjázi",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "назе́мная ли́ния свя́зи"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "línija provodnój svjázi",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ли́ния проводно́й свя́зи"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фиксна линија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fiksna linija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pevná linka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "telefonía fija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "línea fija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "fast telefoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "fixed telephone communications cable",
      "word": "telefon hattı"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "landlyntelefoon"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "stacionáren telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "стациона́рен телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "座機電話"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zuòjī diànhuà",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "座机电话"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pevná linka"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "stabil"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "fiksa telefono"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "kabla telefono"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "konduktila telefono"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "lankapuhelin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "téléphone fixe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teléfono fixo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "saxlis ṭeleponi",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "სახლის ტელეფონი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "piksirebuli ṭeleponi",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "ფიქსირებული ტელეფონი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kalakis ṭeleponi",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "ქალაქის ტელეფონი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Festnetz"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Festnetztelefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "vezetékes telefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "telepon tetap"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "telepon rumah"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "telefono fisso"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こていでんわ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kotei denwa",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "固定電話"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fasttelefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fasttelefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "telefon stacjonarny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "telefone fixo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stacionárnyj telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "стациона́рный телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorodskój telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городско́й телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nazémnyj telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "назе́мный телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fiksírovannyj telefón",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "фикси́рованный телефо́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "фиксни телефон"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fiksni telefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teléfono fijo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fast telefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "sabit hat"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "word": "sabit telefon"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "telephone connected by such a fixed wire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ffôn tŷ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "(attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable",
      "word": "vezetékes"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "landline"
  ],
  "word": "landline"
}

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