telegram
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- telegramme (rare)
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 5661828:
- 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 and 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'.
TranslationsEdit
message sent by telegraph
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VerbEdit
telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)
- (intransitive) To send a telegram.
- (transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
- (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.
TranslationsEdit
telegraph — see telegraph
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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.”
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English telegram.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)
Derived termsEdit
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PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
telegram m inan
DeclensionEdit
Declension of telegram
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | telegram | telegramy |
| genitive | telegramu | telegramów |
| dative | telegramowi | telegramom |
| accusative | telegram | telegramy |
| instrumental | telegramem | telegramami |
| locative | telegramie | telegramach |
| vocative | telegramie | telegramy |
Derived termsEdit
noun
Further readingEdit
- telegram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- telegram in Polish dictionaries at PWN
RomanianEdit
NounEdit
telegram n (plural telegrame)
- Alternative form of telegramă
DeclensionEdit
Declension of telegram
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of telegram
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | telegram | telegrami |
| genitive | telegrama | telegrama |
| dative | telegramu | telegramima |
| accusative | telegram | telegrame |
| vocative | telegrame | telegrami |
| locative | telegramu | telegramima |
| instrumental | telegramom | telegramima |
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
telegram n
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of telegram | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | telegram | telegrammet | telegram | telegrammen |
| Genitive | telegrams | telegrammets | telegrams | telegrammens |
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See alsoEdit
VilamovianEdit
NounEdit
telegram n