Meaning

1 senses
  1. An independent, telephonic communication system, set up around and throughout a building, complex, or residence, typically for access control.

    emergency intercom

    talk on the intercom

    Gegensprechanlage, Sprechanlage

    интерко́мintɛrkóm, систе́ма двусторо́нней свя́зиsistéma dvustorónnej svjázi, перегово́рное устро́йствоperegovórnoje ustrójstvo

    домофо́нdomofón

    a communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Tom pressed the intercom button.

  2. Tom leaned out the window of his car and pressed the button on the intercom at the gate.

    deTom lehnte sich aus dem Autofenster und drückte auf den Knopf der Sprechanlage am Tor. — raggione

  3. Sami was still screaming into the intercom.

  4. Sami heard his name over the intercom.

  5. Now I have to answer the intercom.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
an electronic communication system:
Русский
By meaning 1
an electronic communication system:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an electronic communication system:

Origin

Clipping of intercommunicator.

Clipping of intercommunicator.

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Forms

plural: intercoms
Singularintercom
Pluralintercoms

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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