telegram
See also: Telegram
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- telegramme (rare)
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telegram (plural telegrams)
- 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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message sent by telegraph
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telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)
- (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.
- (transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
- (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.
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telegraph — see telegraph
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- ^ 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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Borrowed from English telegram.
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telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)
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telegram m inan
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Declension of telegram
singular | plural | |
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nominative | telegram | telegramy |
genitive | telegramu | telegramów |
dative | telegramowi | telegramom |
accusative | telegram | telegramy |
instrumental | telegramem | telegramami |
locative | telegramie | telegramach |
vocative | telegramie | telegramy |
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telegram n (plural telegrame)
- Alternative form of telegramă
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Declension of telegram
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) telegram | telegramul | (niște) telegrame | telegramele |
genitive/dative | (unui) telegram | telegramului | (unor) telegrame | telegramelor |
vocative | telegramule | telegramelor |
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tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)
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singular | plural | |
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nominative | telegram | telegrami |
genitive | telegrama | telegrama |
dative | telegramu | telegramima |
accusative | telegram | telegrame |
vocative | telegrame | telegrami |
locative | telegramu | telegramima |
instrumental | telegramom | telegramima |
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Audio (file)
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telegram n
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Declension of telegram | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | telegram | telegrammet | telegram | telegrammen |
Genitive | telegrams | telegrammets | telegrams | telegrammens |
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telegram n