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Synonyms of call in English:
call
See US English definition of call
See UK English definition of call
See Spanish definition of llamada
verb
1‘‘Wait for me!’ she called’
2‘I got so tired, Mum had to call me at least three times every morning’
3‘I'll call you tomorrow’
4‘you'd better call the doctor’
5‘he called at Ashgrove Cottage on his way home’
6‘the prime minister called a meeting of senior cabinet ministers’
7‘they called their daughter Hannah’
8‘he's the only person I would call a friend’
noun
1‘I heard calls of ‘Come on Steve’ from the auditorium’
2‘the call of the water rail’
3‘I'll give you a call tomorrow’
4‘later that day, he paid a call on Harold Shoesmith’
5‘the President issued a call for party unity’
6‘the last call for passengers on flight BA701’
7‘there's no call for that kind of language’
8‘there's no call for expensive wine here’
9‘walkers can't resist the call of the Cairngorms’
Phrases
- call someone up
1‘Roland called me up at the crack of dawn’
2‘they have called up more than 20,000 reservists’
3‘he was called up for England's final Test at the Oval’
1‘desperate times call for desperate measures’
2‘I'll call for you around seven’
‘directors call the shots and nothing happens on set without their say-so’
1‘the still lifes call to mind Cézanne's works’
2‘I cannot call to mind where I have seen you’
‘the smell brings to mind past similar experiences’
‘one of the team will be on call around the clock’
‘the safety of milk was never really called into question’
trust
1‘I thought I might call on her later today’
2‘he called on the government to hold a plebiscite’
3‘we are able to call on academic staff with a wide variety of expertise’
‘the proposed tour to Australia was called off’