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English

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Etymology

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From tele- +‎ -gram.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/
  • Audio (US):(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

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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, 1852 April 6: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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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English telegram.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

  1. telegram

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Descendants

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  • Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

Polish

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Etymology

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From tele- +‎ -gram.

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Noun

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telegram m inan

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

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Further reading

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

Romanian

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Noun

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telegram n (plural telegrame)

  1. Alternative form of telegramă

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative telegram telegramul telegrame telegramele
genitive-dative telegram telegramului telegrame telegramelor
vocative telegramule telegramelor

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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

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tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

  1. telegram

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Swedish

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Etymology

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tele- +‎ -gram.

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telegram n

  1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

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Vilamovian

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Noun

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telegram n

  1. telegram, wire