Meaning & Definition of Mobile in English

1. A river in southwestern alabama

• Flows into mobile bay

2. A port in southwestern alabama on mobile bay

3. Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents

1. Migratory

• "A restless mobile society"

• "The nomadic habits of the bedouins"

• "Believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"

• "Wandering tribes"

2. Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)

• "A mobile missile system"

• "The tongue is...the most mobile articulator"

3. Having transportation available

4. Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another

• "A highly mobile face"

5. Affording change (especially in social status)

• "Britain is not a truly fluid society"

• "Upwardly mobile"