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iPhone

nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈaɪˌfoʊ̯n//

A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.

noun

  1. 1

    A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.

    His mom bought him an IPhone for his 11th birthday.

    This concept puts the curve back on the iPhone 5 with a silhouette that's reminiscent of a banana phone.

    Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.

    “This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”

  2. 2

    Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.

Etymology

From i- + phone. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

Forms

plural
iPhones
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).