telegram
See also: Telegram
English
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edit- telegramme (rare)
Etymology
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editNoun
edittelegram (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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editmessage sent by telegraph
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Verb
edittelegram (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.
Translations
edittelegraph — see telegraph
References
edit- ^ 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.”
Anagrams
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editBorrowed from English telegram.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittelegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)
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editPolish
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editNoun
edittelegram m inan
Declension
editDeclension 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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editRomanian
editNoun
edittelegram n (plural telegrame)
- Alternative form of telegramă
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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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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edittȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)
Declension
editDeclension of telegram
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 |
Swedish
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edittelegram n
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editDeclension of telegram
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editVilamovian
editNoun
edittelegram n
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