Definition of Phoner

1. Noun. The person initiating a telephone call. "There were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"

Exact synonyms: Caller, Caller-up, Telephoner
Generic synonyms: Speaker, Talker, Utterer, Verbaliser, Verbalizer
Derivative terms: Call, Phone, Telephone

Definition of Phoner

1. Noun. One who phones. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phoner

1. one that telephones [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoner

phonemic merger
phonemic mergers
phonemic split
phonemic system
phonemically
phonemicist
phonemicists
phonemicization
phonemicizations
phonemicize
phonemicized
phonemicizes
phonemicizing
phonemics
phonendoscope
phoner (current term)
phoners
phones
phonestheme
phonesthemes
phonesthesia
phonesthetic
phonetic
phonetic alphabet
phonetic symbol
phonetic symbolism
phonetic transcription
phonetical
phonetically

Literary usage of Phoner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"[His discovery of the S. Gall Anti- phoner in 1827 was an important event in the history of old liturgical music. The curious incident of the unique copy of ..."

2. The Schools of Medieval England by Arthur Francis Leach (1915)
"A schoolfellow translated and expounded for the enquiring child the Alma redemptoris from the anti- phoner of an older class. The prioress, doubtless ..."

3. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1905)
"So that often they must be losing sight of the fundamental sources of our melodies in the Anti- phoner and Gradual, and may thus forget what that is upon ..."

4. The Church of Our Fathers as Seen in St. Osmund's Rite for the Cathedral of by Daniel Rock (1853)
"... helped Adrian in a revision of the Anti- phoner, an undertaking which, most likely, he had been himself the first to whisper into that pontiff's ear. ..."

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