landline

See also: land line

English

A landline telephone

land +‎ line

landline (plural landlines)

A fixed telephone communications cable; originally, one run over land, as opposed to a submarine cable.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 134:
  The land line was eight months later in its completion than was anticipated, but the fleet of cable ships, sent out by the British Australian Telegraph Company, arrived in Port Darwin at the date appointed by them: November 6th, 1871.
(by extension) A telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless/mobile.
(attributively) That which is connected by such a fixed wire (telephone, internet etc.).

fixed telephone communications cable

Arabic: هَاتِف ثَابِت‎ (ar) m (hātif ṯābit)
Bulgarian: телефо́нна ли́ния f (telefónna línija)
Catalan: telefonia fixa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 固網電信／固网电信 (zh) (gùwǎng diànxìn), 固網／固网 (gùwǎng)
Czech: pevná linka f
Esperanto: fiksa telefono, kabla telefono, konduktila telefono
Estonian: kõnetraat
Finnish: kiinteä linja, lankalinja
French: ligne fixe (fr) m
Galician: telefonía fixa f
Georgian: მიწისზედა სატელეფონო ხაზი (mic̣iszeda saṭelepono xazi), ფიქსირებული სატელეფონო ხაზი (piksirebuli saṭelepono xazi)
German: Festnetz (de) n
Hungarian: vezetékes telefon
Indonesian: telepon tetap, telepon rumah
Italian: telefonia fissa (it) f
Japanese: 固定電話 (ja) (kotei denwa), 家電 (ja) (kaden) (informal)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fasttelefoni (no) n
Nynorsk: fasttelefoni n
Portuguese: telefonia fixa f
Russian: назе́мная ли́ния свя́зи f (nazémnaja línija svjázi), ли́ния проводно́й свя́зи f (línija provodnój svjázi)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фиксна линија f
Roman: fiksna linija f
Slovak: pevná linka f
Spanish: telefonía fija f, línea fija f
Swedish: fast telefoni
Turkish: telefon hattı (tr)

telephone connected by such a fixed wire

Bulgarian: стациона́рен телефо́н m (stacionáren telefón)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 座機電話／座机电话 (zuòjī diànhuà)
Czech: pevná linka f, (informal) stabil (cs)
Esperanto: fiksa telefono, kabla telefono, konduktila telefono
Finnish: lankapuhelin (fi)
French: téléphone fixe (fr) m
Galician: teléfono fixo m
Georgian: სახლის ტელეფონი (saxlis ṭeleponi), ფიქსირებული ტელეფონი (piksirebuli ṭeleponi), ქალაქის ტელეფონი (kalakis ṭeleponi)
German: Festnetz (de) n, Festnetztelefon n
Hungarian: vezetékes telefon
Italian: telefono fisso m
Japanese: 固定電話 (ja) (こていでんわ, kotei denwa)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fasttelefon (no) m
Nynorsk: fasttelefon m
Polish: telefon stacjonarny m
Portuguese: telefone fixo m
Russian: стациона́рный телефо́н m (stacionárnyj telefón), городско́й телефо́н m (gorodskój telefón), назе́мный телефо́н m (nazémnyj telefón), фикси́рованный телефо́н m (fiksírovannyj telefón)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фиксни телефон m
Roman: fiksni telefon m
Spanish: teléfono fijo m
Swedish: fast telefon (sv) c
Turkish: sabit hat, sabit telefon

(attributively) connected by a fixed communications cable