videophone

noun

vid·​eo·​phone ˈvi-dē-ə-ˌfōn 

: a telephone that can transmit video as well as audio signals so that users can see each other

Examples of videophone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 2020, a study in Applied Animal Behaviour Science tested whether a pet videophone playing calming sounds and videos could lower stress in 47 shelter dogs. —Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025

But most of all, videophone equipment was considered too expensive for most people for their private use. —Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011

So the final piece of the videophone tech puzzle is a means for compression. —Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011

To connect directly to a crisis counselor in American Sign Language, call 1-800-985-5990 from your videophone. —Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 6 Sep. 2024

About 20,000 videophone contacts in American Sign Language were made, and 1.2 million calls were answered by the Veterans Crisis Line through 988’s Press 1 option. —Maya Davis, CNN, 16 July 2024

Then came the videophone. —Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 4 May 2021

And what happens now is that everyone has a videophone in their pocket, and most of us rarely use them outside. —The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021

The first crude cameraphone transmitted images in 1927; by the 1960s, AT&T previewed a fully functioning landline videophone, purveying live imaging two ways. —Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for videophone

• acetone
• anglophone
• baritone
• bourguignon
• buspirone
• chaperon
• chaperone
• cobblestone
• collarbone
• cornerstone
• cortisone
• dictaphone

Kids Definition

videophone

noun

vid·​eo·​phone ˈvid-ē-ə-ˌfōn 

: a telephone equipped for transmission of a picture as well as sound so that users can see each other