telegram

• (rare) telegramme

From tele- +‎ -gram.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/

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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'.

   • 2013 July 15, Monica Sarkar, “The day telegrams came to a final STOP”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Indians awoke on Monday to find their 162-year-old telegram service rendered obsolete, superseded by SMS, e-mail and Twitter.
     Arguably one of the oldest victims of the digital age, telegrams were the fastest communication method from the 19th century.

telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)

1. (intransitive) To send a telegram.
   • 1984 August 5, “Women Lawyers Unit Describes Its Role”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     In the brouhaha over the reappointment of Superior Court Judge Sylvia Pressler, we organized massive support - telegramming, telephoning and writing to encourage the State Senate to exercise its advise and consent function responsibly.

   • 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).
   • 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

3. (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.

• Great Elm

Borrowed from English telegram.

• IPA^(key): /teːləˈɡrɑm/

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• Hyphenation: te‧le‧gram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

telegram n (plural telegrammen, diminutive telegrammetje n)

1. telegram

• telegramstijl

• telegraaf
• telegraferen
• telegrafie
• telegrafisch

• → Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

From tele- +‎ -gram.

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛ.ɡram/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡram
• Syllabification: te‧le‧gram

telegram m inan (related adjective telegramowy, abbreviation (rare) tel.)

1. telegram (message sent by telegraph)

   Synonym: depesza

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

• IPA^(key): /te.leˈɡram/

telegram n (plural telegrame)

1. alternative form of telegramă

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

tȅlegram m inan (Cyrillic spelling те̏леграм)

1. telegram

tele- +‎ -gram.

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telegram n

1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

• lyxtelegram
• telegramblankett

• telegraf

telegram n

1. telegram, wire