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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tiviː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tivi/
• Rhymes: -iː

tv (countable and uncountable, plural tvs)

1. Alternative form of TV.
   • 2015, E[dward] L. Risden, “Introduction. The ‘Author of the Century’ in His Century: Extending the Intellectual Landscape”, in Tolkien’s Intellectual Landscape, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 16:

     The fantasy trilogy hasn’t disappeared; it has gained momentum and in some instances become a dodecalogy, and the material of modern fantasy has spread from print to subway graffiti, role-playing games, film, tv, and online culture.

   • 2023, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Hamish Hamilton, page 73:

     Besides, I’m not a tv presenter, but a writer, in case you haven’t noticed.

• VT, Vt., v.t., vt, vt.

 

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Wikipedia ^da

Abbreviation for television.

tv n (singular definite tv'et, plural indefinite tv'er)

1. TV

• fjernsyn

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tv

1. Abbreviation of televisie.

• → Caribbean Javanese: tévé
• → Sranan Tongo: teifei

• TV

See TV.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˌʋeː/, [ˈt̪e̞ːˌʋe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː

tv

1. TV, television

• “tv”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

tv

1. television
   • 1982 August 4, “Qalasersuaq kujalleq Ammassalimmut nuunneqarallartoq”, in Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten:

     Immaqa imaassinnaavoq aamma nunattinni tv-mik isiginnaartartut periarfissinneqarumaartut takusinnaasallugu.

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• TV (nonstandard but fairly common)

• IPA^(key): [ˈteːveː]

tv (plural tv-k)

1. television, TV

   Synonyms: tévé, televízió

• tv. (abbreviation of törvény (“law, act”))

Abbreviation of televisjon

tv m (definite singular tv-en, indefinite plural tv-er, definite plural tv-ene)

1. Alternative form of TV

• fjernsyn

• “tv” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Abbreviation of televisjon

tv m (definite singular tv-en, indefinite plural tv-ar, definite plural tv-ane)

1. Alternative letter-case form of TV

• fjernsyn

• “tv” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tv f (plural tvs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of TV

• IPA^(key): /teˈbe/ [t̪eˈβ̞e]
  • Rhymes: -e
• IPA^(key): /teˈube/ [t̪eˈu.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -ube

tv f (uncountable)

1. (television): TV

   Synonym: tele

• teve

Abbreviation for television.

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˌveː/, /ˈteːˌvɛ/

tv c

1. television
2. a TV set, a telly
3. Archaic spelling of du (“you”).
   • 1649, Jacobus Petri Chronander, Bele-Snack, Eller Een Ny Comœdia, act I, scene IV, page 40:

     TV Konstrijke Mästare, godt rådh giff,
     Skall man nu skona thenna skelmens lijff?

     YOU artful Master, good counsel give,
     Should one now spare this scoundrel's life?

• v.t.

Abbreviation of telefyzje.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːfeː/

tv c (plural tv's, diminutive tv'ke)

1. TV