TELEPHONE MESSAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephone message mean? 

• TELEPHONE MESSAGE (noun)
  The noun TELEPHONE MESSAGE has 1 sense:

1. a message transmitted by telephone

  Familiarity information: TELEPHONE MESSAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPHONE MESSAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A message transmitted by telephone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

phone message; telephone message

Hypernyms ("telephone message" is a kind of...):

message (a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled)

 Context examples 

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Write and convey a telephone message adequately?

(DAD - Write and Convey a Telephone Message Adequately, NCI Thesaurus)

No telephone message arrived but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o'clock—until long after there was any one to give it to if it came.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)