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teleg.

teleg. is the abbreviation of telegram.

teleg. is the abbreviation of telegraph.

teleg. is the abbreviation of telegraphy.

Meaning of telegram

Noun

telegram (plural telegrams)

  1. A message transmitted by telegraph.
    • 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...1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    wire, cable, telegrapheme

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Meaning of telegraph

Noun

telegraph (plural telegraphs)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
    • This strict sense of telegraph developed from French usage for Napoleon's overland semaphore network but rather arbitrarily excludes similar Chinese and other signalling networks.
    Synonyms:
    telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code
  2. (historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.
    • The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.
  3. A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.

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Forms of teleg.

pluraltelegs.

Questions about teleg.

What is teleg. the abbreviation of?
Teleg. is the abbreviation of telegram.

Words near teleg. in the dictionary

  1. telefunding
  2. telefunds
  3. telefuture
  4. telefutures
  5. teleg
  6. teleg.
  7. telega
  8. telegambling
  9. telegaming
  10. telegas
  11. telegenesis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teleg. (page history and authors); telegram (page history and authors); telegraph (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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