mobile in English: A phone you carry with you; short for mobile phone. As a describing word it means able to move. (noun)

Translation

A phone you carry with you; short for mobile phone. As a describing word it means able to move.

Word origin

From Latin mobilis, easy to move, from movere, to move.

Gender

Pluralmobiles

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In British English a mobile is a mobile phone.

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Mobile is the everyday British word; Americans say cell phone.

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Here mobile is an adjective meaning able to move around.

phone

A small thing you hold to talk to people far away or to send messages.

call

To speak to someone on the phone, or to say a name in a loud voice.

message

Words you send to someone when you cannot speak to them face to face.

screen

The flat surface on a television, a phone or a computer where you see pictures and words.

text

Words that are written or printed. It also means a short written message you send from a phone.

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