telephonist
IPA: tˈɛɫʌfoʊnɪst
noun
- A telephone operator.
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Examples of "telephonist" in Sentences
- Ready from Day One to be a late night telephonist?
- But this all to do with the age in which ST:TOS was produced: Nichelle was a telephonist, with a mini-skirt.
- In 1895 Ralph Morris, an American telephonist, invented the string of electric Christmas lights similar to the ones we use today.
- She had already met them all that afternoon, but there were three missing, someone told her; Harry, the telephonist, who was on duty.
- She was working as a telephonist at a publisher's in Camden Town, earning her keep, and we kept on being interrupted by the phone going.
- In the following years she worked as a young nanny, telephonist, office worker, stenographer and journalist and had several short stories published.
- Amazingly, the telephonist put me straight through, and at length Miss Kitt picked up the phone, and, after an exquisitely timed pause, she acknowledged me with a superb, gravelly “Hello?”
- Six fired, sir, 'called the telephonist, and as he spoke there came the shrieks of the shells, and the white puffs of the bursts low down and between the prone British line and the advancing Germans.
- It remains in dispute whether the Daily Mail first christened them All Blacks through their original all-black uniform or because of their novel "all-court" style of 15-man running play and the term "all backs" was transposed to "blacks" by a Fleet Street telephonist.
- She arrived at 17, "extraordinary of my parents to let me", and after the Colonels took over Greece and her father's business "went belly-up", worked six days a week in the Mayfair Hotel as a room-service telephonist to pay for her O and A-levels: "It was rather fun," she says.
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