telephone set | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun telephone set has 1 sense

telephone, phone, telephone set - electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone"
--₁ is a kind of electronic equipment
--₁ is a part of telephone system, phone system
--₁ has parts: mouthpiece; telephone receiver, receiver
--₁ has particulars:

desk phone; dial telephone, dial phone; extension, telephone extension, extension phone; handset, French telephone; pay-phone, pay-station; radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone; speakerphone