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telecast

/ˈtɛlɪkæst/

telecast verb: to broadcast by television.

Verb

telecast (third-person singular simple present telecasts, present participle telecasting, simple past and past participle telecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) telecasted)

  1. (transitive) To broadcast by television.
    • Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]1953 August 29, Billboard, page 4
    • [The Kumbh Mela festival] would be telecast across the country.2025 January 29, Aakash Hassan, “He went to capture the beauty of Hinduism. Then the stampede happened.”, in The Christian Science Monitor
    Synonyms:
    televise
  2. (intransitive) To broadcast a television program.
    Synonyms:
    air

Noun

telecast (plural telecasts)

  1. A television broadcast, especially outside of a studio.
    • By the time the telecast starts, you’ll be an industry insider.2020 January 23, Scottie Andrew, Allen Kim and Tiffany Baker, “How to talk about the Grammys best new artist nominees like a pro”, in CNN

telecast meaning in Tamil and Bengali

telecast in Tamil

தொலைபரப்பு

telecast in Bengali

টেলিভিশন দ্বারা সম্প্রচার করা, টেলিভিশন প্রোগ্রাম সম্প্রচার করা, টেলিভিশনের সম্প্রচার

Synonyms of telecast

Forms of telecast

Verb
third-person singular presenttelecasts
present participletelecasting
past participletelecast
pasttelecast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimestelecasted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimestelecasted
Noun
pluraltelecasts

Past tense of telecast: telecast

Origin of telecast

From tele- + -cast, from broadcast.

Words formed from telecast

Questions about telecast

What does telecast mean?
Telecast means to broadcast by television.
What is telecast in Tamil?
Telecast in Tamil is தொலைபரப்பு. See Telecast meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is telecast?
Telecast can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce telecast?
Telecast is pronounced /ˈtɛlɪkæst/.
What is the past tense of telecast?
The past tense of telecast is telecast.

Words near telecast in the dictionary

  1. telecardiological
  2. telecardiology
  3. telecare
  4. telecarer
  5. telecarers
  6. telecast
  7. telecasted
  8. telecaster
  9. telecasters
  10. telecasting
  11. telecastress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telecast (page history and authors); telecast (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); telecast (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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