See also: Telegram

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tele- +‎ -gram.[1]

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/
  • (file)

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telegram (plural telegrams)

  1. A message transmitted by telegraph.
    Synonyms: wire, cable, telegrapheme
    • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
      There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. [] Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
    • 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 394:
      On 20 May 1937 when down in Bradford-on-Avon on business, Bulleid received a telegram with the cryptic news: 'Sir Herbert Walker wishes to see you twelve thirty tomorrow—Gresley'.

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Verb edit

telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)

  1. (intransitive) To send a telegram.
    • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 23:
      He was a very posh chap from Oxfordshire, whose dad had been Chancellor and whose mum was obliged to keep telegramming round to find him a job because little Winnie had flunked out of his very expensive school.
  2. (transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
  3. (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.

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  1. ^ Albany Evening Journal, April 6, 1852: “A friend desires us to [] introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.”

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English telegram.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /teːləˈɡrɑm/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

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telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

  1. telegram

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  • Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

From tele- +‎ -gram.

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telegram m inan

  1. telegram (message sent by telegraph)
    Synonym: depesza

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adjective
noun

Further reading edit

  • telegram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • telegram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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telegram n (plural telegrame)

  1. Alternative form of telegramă

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Serbo-Croatian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /têleɡram/
  • Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram

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tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

  1. telegram

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Swedish edit

Etymology edit

tele- +‎ -gram.

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telegram n

  1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

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Declension of telegram 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative telegram telegrammet telegram telegrammen
Genitive telegrams telegrammets telegrams telegrammens

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telegram n

  1. telegram, wire