telegram

See also: Telegram

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.[1]

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

Noun

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'.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.

Translations
telegraph — see telegraph

References
  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.”

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English telegram.

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

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

  1. telegram

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

Polish

Etymology

From tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɛˈlɛ.ɡram/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡram
  • Syllabification: te‧le‧gram

Noun

telegram m inan

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

Declension
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 terms
adjective
  • telegramowy
noun

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

Romanian

Noun

telegram n (plural telegrame)

  1. Alternative form of telegramă

Declension
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-Croatian

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

Noun

tȅlegram m (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

  1. telegram

Declension
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

Swedish

Etymology

tele- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Noun

telegram n

  1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

Declension
Declension of telegram 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative telegram telegrammet telegram telegrammen
Genitive telegrams telegrammets telegrams telegrammens
  • lyxtelegram
  • telegramblankett

See also

Vilamovian

Noun

telegram n

  1. telegram, wire
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