Meanings
nounlandline (plural landlines)
plural landlines · alternative land line
- A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
The land line was eight months later in its completion than was anticipated, but the fleet of cable ships, sent out by the British Australian Telegraph Company, arrived in Port Darwin at the date appointed by them: November 6th, 1871.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 134Synonyms: wireline
- attributiveThat which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
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nouna telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits
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Translations
Afrikaans landlyn, landlyntelefoon
- landlynfixed telephone communications cable
- landlyntelefoontelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Arabic هَاتِف ثَابِت
- هَاتِف ثَابِت (hātif ṯābit)fixed telephone communications cable
Bulgarian телефо́нна ли́ния, стациона́рен телефо́н
- телефо́нна ли́ния (telefónna línija)fixed telephone communications cable
- стациона́рен телефо́н (stacionáren telefón)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
Catalan telefonia fixa
- telefonia fixafixed telephone communications cable
Chinese Mandarin 固網電信 /固网电信, 固網 /固网
- 固網電信 /固网电信 (gùwǎng diànxìn)fixed telephone communications cable
- 固網 /固网 (gùwǎng)fixed telephone communications cable
- 座機電話 /座机电话 (zuòjī diànhuà)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
Czech pevná linka, pevná linka
- pevná linkafixed telephone communications cable
- pevná linkatelephone connected by such a fixed wire
- stabiltelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Esperanto fiksa telefono, kabla telefono
- fiksa telefonofixed telephone communications cable
- kabla telefonofixed telephone communications cable
- konduktila telefonofixed telephone communications cable
- fiksa telefonotelephone connected by such a fixed wire
- kabla telefonotelephone connected by such a fixed wire
- konduktila telefonotelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Estonian kõnetraat
- kõnetraatfixed telephone communications cable
Finnish kiinteä linja, lankalinja
- kiinteä linjafixed telephone communications cable
- lankalinjafixed telephone communications cable
- lankapuhelintelephone connected by such a fixed wire
French ligne fixe, téléphone fixe
- ligne fixefixed telephone communications cable
- téléphone fixetelephone connected by such a fixed wire
German Festnetz, Festnetz
- Festnetzfixed telephone communications cable
- Festnetztelephone connected by such a fixed wire
- Festnetztelefontelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Hungarian vezetékes telefon, vezetékes
- vezetékes telefonfixed telephone communications cable
- vezetékes(attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable
- vezetékes telefontelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Indonesian telepon tetap, telepon rumah
- telepon tetaptelephone connected by such a fixed wire
- telepon rumahtelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Italian telefonia fissa, telefono fisso
- telefonia fissafixed telephone communications cable
- telefono fissotelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Japanese 固定電話
- 固定電話 (kotei denwa)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
Norwegian Bokmål fasttelefoni, fasttelefon
- fasttelefonifixed telephone communications cable
- fasttelefontelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Polish telefon stacjonarny
- telefon stacjonarnytelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Portuguese telefonia fixa, telefone fixo
- telefonia fixafixed telephone communications cable
- telefone fixotelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Russian назе́мная ли́ния свя́зи, ли́ния проводно́й свя́зи
- назе́мная ли́ния свя́зи (nazémnaja línija svjázi)fixed telephone communications cable
- ли́ния проводно́й свя́зи (línija provodnój svjázi)fixed telephone communications cable
- стациона́рный телефо́н (stacionárnyj telefón)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
- городско́й телефо́н (gorodskój telefón)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
- назе́мный телефо́н (nazémnyj telefón)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
- фикси́рованный телефо́н (fiksírovannyj telefón)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
Slovak pevná linka
- pevná linkafixed telephone communications cable
Spanish telefonía fija, línea fija
- telefonía fijafixed telephone communications cable
- línea fijafixed telephone communications cable
- teléfono fijotelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Swedish fast telefoni, fast telefon
- fast telefonifixed telephone communications cable
- fast telefontelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Turkish telefon hattı, sabit hat
- telefon hattıfixed telephone communications cable
- sabit hattelephone connected by such a fixed wire
- sabit telefontelephone connected by such a fixed wire
Ukrainian стаціона́рний телефо́н
- стаціона́рний телефо́н (stacionárnyj telefón)telephone connected by such a fixed wire
Welsh ffôn tŷ
- ffôn tŷtelephone connected by such a fixed wire
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“landline.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landline. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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