Synonyms of call in English:

call

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verb

1‘‘Wait for me!’ she called’

SYNONYMS

cry out, cry, shout, yell, sing out, whoop, bellow, roar, halloo, bawl, scream, shriek, screech

exclaim

informal holler, yoo-hoo, cooee

rare ejaculate, vociferate

2‘I got so tired, Mum had to call me at least three times every morning’

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wake up, wake, awaken, waken, rouse

informal give someone a shout

British informal knock up

3‘I'll call you tomorrow’

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phone, telephone, get on the phone to, get someone on the phone, dial, make a call to, place a call to, get, reach

British ring up, ring, give someone a ring

informal call up, give someone a call, give someone a buzz, buzz

British informal give someone a bell, bell, give someone a tinkle, get on the blower to

North American informal get someone on the horn

4‘you'd better call the doctor’

SYNONYMS

summon, send for, ask for

order

page

5‘he called at Ashgrove Cottage on his way home’

SYNONYMS

pay a visit to, pay a brief visit to, visit, pay a call on, look in on

British call in on

informal drop in on, drop by, stop by, pop into

6‘the prime minister called a meeting of senior cabinet ministers’

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convene, summon, call together, order, assemble

arrange, arrange a date for, arrange a time for

announce, declare

formal convoke

7‘they called their daughter Hannah’

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name

christen, baptize

designate, style, term, dub, label, entitle

archaic clepe

rare denominate

answer to the name of, go by the name of

8‘he's the only person I would call a friend’

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describe as, regard as, look on as, consider to be, judge to be, think of as, class as, categorize as

noun

1‘I heard calls of ‘Come on Steve’ from the auditorium’

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cry, shout, yell, whoop, roar, scream, shriek

exclamation

informal holler

rare vociferation

2‘the call of the water rail’

SYNONYMS

cry, song, sound

3‘I'll give you a call tomorrow’

SYNONYMS

phone call, telephone call

British ring

informal buzz

British informal bell, tinkle

4‘later that day, he paid a call on Harold Shoesmith’

SYNONYMS

visit, social call

5‘the President issued a call for party unity’

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appeal, request, plea, entreaty

demand, order, command

6‘the last call for passengers on flight BA701’

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summons, request

7‘there's no call for that kind of language’

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need, necessity, occasion, reason, justification, grounds, excuse, pretext

cause

8‘there's no call for expensive wine here’

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demand, desire, want, requirement, need

market

9‘walkers can't resist the call of the Cairngorms’

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attraction, appeal, lure, allure, allurement, fascination, seductiveness

magic, beauty, spell, pull, draw

Phrases

call someone up

1‘Roland called me up at the crack of dawn’

SYNONYMS

phone, telephone, call, get on the phone to, get someone on the phone, dial, make a call to, place a call to, get, reach

British ring up, ring, give someone a ring

informal give someone a call, give someone a buzz, buzz

British informal give someone a bell, bell, give someone a tinkle, get on the blower to

North American informal get someone on the horn

2‘they have called up more than 20,000 reservists’

SYNONYMS

enlist, recruit, sign up

conscript

US draft

3‘he was called up for England's final Test at the Oval’

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select, pick, choose

British cap

informal give someone the nod

call for

1‘desperate times call for desperate measures’

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require, need, necessitate, make necessary, demand

be grounds for, justify, warrant, be a justification for, be a reason for

involve, entail

2‘I'll call for you around seven’

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pick up, collect, fetch, come to get, go to get, come for

call the shots

‘directors call the shots and nothing happens on set without their say-so’

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be in charge, be in control, be in command, be the boss, be at the helm, be in the driving seat, be at the wheel, be in the saddle, pull the strings, hold the purse strings

informal run the show, rule the roost

British informal wear the trousers

call to mind

1‘the still lifes call to mind Cézanne's works’

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evoke, put one in mind of, recall, bring to mind, call up, summon up, conjure up

echo, allude to

2‘I cannot call to mind where I have seen you’

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remember, recall, recollect, think

Scottish mind

archaic bethink oneself of

‘the smell brings to mind past similar experiences’

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remind one of, cause one to remember, make one think of, cause one to remember, put one in mind of, take one back to, bring to mind, call to mind, awake one's memories of, evoke, call up, conjure up, summon up

on call

‘one of the team will be on call around the clock’

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on duty, on standby, standing by, ready, available

call something into question

‘the safety of milk was never really called into question’

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doubt, distrust, mistrust, suspect, lack confidence in, have doubts about, be suspicious of, have suspicions about, have misgivings about, feel uneasy about, feel apprehensive about, cast doubt on, query, question, challenge, dispute, have reservations about

archaic misdoubt

ANTONYMS

trust

call on

1‘I thought I might call on her later today’

SYNONYMS

visit, pay a visit to, pay a call on, go and see, look in on

North American visit with, go see

informal look up, drop in on, pop in on

2‘he called on the government to hold a plebiscite’

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appeal to, ask, request, apply to, petition