telegraphist

English

Etymology

From telegraph +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləɡɹɑːfɪst/, /təˈlɛɡɹɑːfɪst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləɡɹæfɪst/, /təˈlɛɡɹæfɪst/

Noun

telegraphist (plural telegraphists)

1. A telegrapher or telegraph operator.
   • 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:

     He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.

   • 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:

     But the next stations, Wamphray, and Dinwoodie, were small places, very probably with no night telegraphists.

Further reading

• “telegraphist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• telegrapher, telegraphist, telegraph operator at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.