knapptelefon

Swedish

Etymology

knapp (button) +‎ telefon (telephone), at least since 1973, probably a decade older; virtually obsolete around 2000, when dial telephones were no longer used; then revived again after the introduction in 2007 of the smartphone

Noun

knapptelefon c

  1. a push-button telephone, keypad telephone, a fixed-line telephone that does not have a rotary dial
  2. a featurephone, a mobile telephone (after the 2007 introduction of the iPhone) that is not a smartphone

Declension

Declension of knapptelefon
nominative genitive
singular indefinite knapptelefon knapptelefons
definite knapptelefonen knapptelefonens
plural indefinite knapptelefoner knapptelefoners
definite knapptelefonerna knapptelefonernas

Synonyms

  • knappsatstelefon
  • knappvalstelefon

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