[mainly US]regional note: in BRIT, use mobile phone
cellular phone in British English
(ˈsɛljʊlə fəʊn)
noun
US
a mobile phone
cellular phone in American English
a kind of mobile radio telephone used in a communications system that has its service area divided into small cells, each having a separatelow-power transmitter and receiver combination
: also cellular telephone
Examples of 'cellular phone' in a sentence
cellular phone
A man in jeans and a tee shirt stood in front of it, talking into a cellular phone.