TELEPHONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephonist mean? 

• TELEPHONIST (noun)
  The noun TELEPHONIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who helps callers get the person they are calling

  Familiarity information: TELEPHONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPHONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who helps callers get the person they are calling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

switchboard operator; telephone operator; telephonist

Hypernyms ("telephonist" is a kind of...):

manipulator; operator (an agent that operates some apparatus or machine)

Derivation:

telephony (transmitting speech at a distance)