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/tˈɛləfˌoʊn kˌɑnvərsˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Telephone conversation

noun

A conversation over the telephone.

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"Telephone conversation" Quotes from Famous Books

... had dropped his teeth, cannot be given, owing to the inadequacy of the English language to reproduce his toothless enunciation. Catching, as Mary did, the meaning of Mrs. Yellett's remarks only, she received something of the one-sided impression given by overhearing a telephone conversation: ...

— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning

... He does not write, because he knows that the man would tear up the letter and he does not telephone, because he knows that the man would not promise to see him and that if he were to call after such a telephone conversation his chances for ...

— The Book of Business Etiquette • Nella Henney

... not a word of thanks. I did not expect thanks and I made allowances for the state of mind at the mansion; but that telephone conversation, particularly Mrs. Colton's share in it, cast a gloom over my spirits. I did not care to hear more of Mr. Atwood's yarns and jokes. I went to my own room, but ...

— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln

... upon the obtainability of his service for the Ravinia piano the telephone conversation would have done as well. His mother had seen him for only a short time, a little more than a week ago and judged from what he then said that he was upon the point of going away, though not for a long absence—a month, perhaps. ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... was in the act of concluding a long and apparently satisfactory telephone conversation with his agent in Duluth at the moment when the door of his private room opened and his ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

Words linked to "Telephone conversation" : conversation