French telephone vs phone

phone vs French telephone

French telephone and phone both are nouns.

French telephone is not a verb while phone is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
French telephone	Yes	No	No	No
phone	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, phone is a hypernym of French telephone; that is, phone is a word with a broader meaning than French telephone:

French telephone: telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle
phone: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

Other hypernyms of French telephone include telephone, telephone set.

French telephone (noun)	phone (noun)
telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle	electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
	electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

French telephone (verb)	phone (verb)
	get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

Difference between French telephone and phone

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