1. a telephone connection that uses wires carried on poles or buried underground

Examples

• Many businesses still rely on landlines for their main phone service.
• The storm knocked out power and landline service to the entire neighborhood.
• She gave me her landline number since her cell phone battery was dead.
• Landlines typically provide clearer sound quality than mobile phones.
• The old house still had the original landline phone mounted on the kitchen wall.
• Emergency services can easily trace calls made from landlines to specific addresses.