telephone receiver

American  

noun

1. a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.

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Etymology

Origin of telephone receiver

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

A telephone receiver, a Baofeng-branded radio, and a box of headphones can be seen.

From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2023

Deep within the belly of the Los Angeles Central Library downtown, a slender, plastic soundstick — a telephone receiver, basically — hangs from a gallery wall.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2016

As if to embody the shift, she appears in the video with a silver wig and various other props: a blocky headset, a telephone receiver, someone listed in the credits as a “clever young interviewer.”

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2016

I sat down and picked up the telephone receiver.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2012

I walked upstairs to the church office and found middle-aged Mabel Shorter unusually flustered as she laid down the telephone receiver.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry