"videophone" meaning in English

See videophone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: videophones [plural]
Etymology: From video + phone. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|video|phone}} video + phone Head templates: {{en-noun}} videophone (plural videophones)
  1. A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions. Synonyms: vidphone [science-fiction, literature, publishing, media], viewphone, picturephone, visionphone
    Sense id: en-videophone-en-noun---KfQv9V
  2. A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions.
    (dated) A cellphone with such capability. Used to distinguish from stills-only camera cellphones and camera-less cellphones.
    Tags: dated Categories (topical): Telephony Synonyms: vidphone [science-fiction, literature, publishing, media], viewphone, picturephone, visionphone
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (type of telephone): 視頻電話 /视频电话 (shìpín diànhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 電視電話 /电视电话 (diànshì diànhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 可視電話 /可视电话 (kěshì diànhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 視像電話 /视像电话 (shìxiàng diànhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), videotelefon [common-gender] (Danish), beeldtelefoon [masculine] (Dutch), videopuhelin (Finnish), visiophone [masculine] (French), Bildtelefon [neuter] (German), videotelefon (Hungarian), físeafón [masculine] (Irish), videotelefono [masculine] (Italian), 비디오폰 (bidiopon) (Korean), 영상전화 (yeongsangjeonhwa) (Korean), videotelefon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), videotelefon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), wideofon (Polish), videofone [masculine] (Portuguese), videófono [masculine] (Spanish), fideoffon [masculine] (Welsh)
Disambiguation of 'type of telephone': 50 50

Inflected forms

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