🇬🇧 Ringtone meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A ringtone is the special sound that a phone makes when someone is calling it. People can choose different ringtones, like music, animal noises, or funny sounds, so they know their phone is ringing and can tell it apart from other people’s phones.

Dad set his ringtone to a toilet flushing and now he can’t answer calls in serious meetings.

I recorded my teacher saying “Do your homework!” and used it as a ringtone—instant panic every time it rings.

My ringtone is me singing off-key, so I never want my phone to ring in public.

When my ringtone of a baby crying went off, my dad checked my little sister instead of my phone.

My ringtone is a doorbell, and now my family runs to the door every time I get a call.

At the quiet cafe, her ringtone rang. The ringtone, a silly tune her father had chosen, made her smile. A second ringtone pulsed at the next table; she followed that ringtone into the street. A child's phone lay by the curb. She returned it, slid her phone into her pocket, and smiled when her ringtone sounded again, a relieved laugh.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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