"payphone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: payphones [plural]
Etymology: From pay + phone. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pay|phone}} pay + phone Head templates: {{en-noun}} payphone (plural payphones)
  1. A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card. Categories (topical): Telephony Synonyms: tickey box [South-Africa], pay phone Related terms: telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kiosk, call collect, COCOT, coin-op, collect call, drop a dime Translations (a public telephone): տաքսաֆոն (takʻsafon) (Armenian), телефонен автомат (telefonen avtomat) (Bulgarian), telèfon públic [masculine] (Catalan), 公用電話 (Chinese Mandarin), 公用电话 (gōngyòng diànhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), mønttelefon [common-gender] (Danish), rahapuhelin (Finnish), yleisöpuhelin (Finnish), Münztelefon [neuter] (German), Münzfernsprecher [masculine] (German), nyilvános telefon (Hungarian), telepon umum (Indonesian), táillefón [masculine] (Irish), 公衆電話 (kōshū denwa) (alt: こうしゅうでんわ) (Japanese), 공중전화 (gongjungjeonhwa) (alt: 公衆電話) (Korean), telefon samoinkasujący [masculine] (Polish), automat telefoniczny [masculine] (Polish), automat [masculine] (Polish), таксофо́н (taksofón) [masculine] (Russian), телефо́н-автома́т (telefón-avtomát) [masculine] (Russian), обще́ственный телефо́н (obščéstvennyj telefón) [masculine] (Russian), teléfono público [masculine] (Spanish), таксофо́н (taksofón) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ffôn talu [masculine] (Welsh)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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