telegram

See also: Telegram

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From tele- +‎ -gram.[1]

    Pronunciation

    • (without /æ/ raising) IPA(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/
      • Audio (US):(file)
        • (/æ/ raising) IPA(key): /ˈtɛləˌɡɹeə̯m/, /ˈtɛləˌɡɹɛə̯m/
    • Hyphenation: tel‧e‧gram

    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'.
      • 2013 July 15, Monica Sarkar, “The day telegrams came to a final STOP”, in CNN‎[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 25 March 2016:
        Indians awoke on Monday to find their 162-year-old telegram service rendered obsolete, superseded by SMS, e-mail and Twitter.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.

    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.
      • 1984 August 5, “Women Lawyers Unit Describes Its Role”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
        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], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 26 April 2015:
        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.

    Translations

    References

    1. ^ Albany Evening Journal, 6 April 1852: “A friend desires us to […] introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.”

    Anagrams

    Czech

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
    Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
    English tele-
    Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
    Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
    Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
    Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
    Proto-Hellenic *-mə
    Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
    Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor.
    English -gram
    English telegrambor.
    Czech telegram

      Borrowed from English telegram.[1] By surface analysis, tele- + -gram.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [ˈtɛlɛɡram]

      Noun

      telegram m inan (relational adjective telegramový)

      1. telegram

      Declension

      Declension of telegram (hard masculine inanimate)
      singular plural
      nominative telegram telegramy
      genitive telegramu telegramů
      dative telegramu telegramům
      accusative telegram telegramy
      vocative telegrame telegramy
      locative telegramu telegramech
      instrumental telegramem telegramy

      References

      1. ^ REJZEK, Jiří (2001), “telegram”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), →ISBN, page 654.

      Further reading

      Danish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from English telegram. By surface analysis, tele- +‎ -gram.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /teleˈɡram/, [tˢeleˈɡ̊ʁɑmˀ]

      Noun

      telegram n (singular definite telegrammet, plural indefinite telegrammer)

      1. telegram

      Inflection

      Declension of telegram
      neuter
      gender       		singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative telegram telegrammet telegrammer telegrammerne
      genitive telegrams telegrammets telegrammers telegrammernes

      Further reading

      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

      • → Indonesian: telegram
      • → Caribbean Javanese: tilgram, setilgram

      Indonesian

      Etymology

      Borrowed from Dutch telegram, from English telegram.

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /teˈleɡram/ [t̪eˈle.ɡram]
      • Rhymes: -eɡram
      • Syllabification: te‧le‧gram

      Noun

      telegram (plural telegram-telegram)

      1. telegram
        1. a written or printed telegraph message
          Synonyms: kabar kawat, kawat, surat kawat
        2. an instant messenger service

      Alternative forms

      • telgram

      Derived terms

      • menelegram
      • telegram indah

      Further reading

      Norwegian Bokmål

      Etymology

      Borrowed from English telegram. By surface analysis, tele- +‎ -gram.

      Noun

      telegram n (definite singular telegrammet, indefinite plural telegram or telegrammer, definite plural telegramma or telegrammene)

      1. telegram

      Further reading

      Norwegian Nynorsk

      Etymology

      Borrowed from English telegram. By surface analysis, tele- +‎ -gram.

      Noun

      telegram n (definite singular telegrammet, indefinite plural telegram, definite plural telegramma)

      1. telegram

      Further reading

      Polish

      Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
      Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)der.
      Polish tele-
      Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
      Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
      Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
      Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
      Proto-Hellenic *-mə
      Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
      Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)der.
      Polish -gram
      Polish telegram

        From tele- + -gram.

        Pronunciation

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

        Noun

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

        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[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
        • “telegram”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[5] (in Polish)

        Romanian

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /te.leˈɡram/

        Noun

        telegram n (plural telegrame)

        1. alternative form of telegramă

        Declension

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

        Serbo-Croatian

        Pronunciation

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

        Noun

        tȅlegram m inan (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

        Slovak

        Etymology

        Etymology tree
        Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
        Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
        English tele-
        Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
        Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
        Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
        Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
        Proto-Hellenic *-mə
        Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
        Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor.
        English -gram
        English telegrambor.
        Slovak telegram

          Borrowed from English telegram. By surface analysis, tele- + -gram.

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /teleɡram/, [ˈteleɡram]
          • Rhymes: -eɡram
          • Hyphenation: te‧leg‧ram

          Noun

          telegram m inan (relational adjective telegramový)

          1. telegram

          Declension

          Declension of telegram
          (pattern dub)
          singularplural
          nominativetelegramtelegramy
          genitivetelegramutelegramov
          dativetelegramutelegramom
          accusativetelegramtelegramy
          locativetelegrametelegramoch
          instrumentaltelegramomtelegramami

          Further reading

          • “telegram”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

          Swedish

          Etymology

          tele- +‎ -gram.

          Pronunciation

          • Audio:(file)

          Noun

          telegram n

          1. a telegram, a message sent by telegraph

          Declension

          Declension of telegram
          nominative genitive
          singular indefinite telegram telegrams
          definite telegrammet telegrammets
          plural indefinite telegram telegrams
          definite telegrammen telegrammens
          • lyxtelegram
          • telegramblankett

          See also

          Vilamovian

          Noun

          telegram n

          1. telegram, wire
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