telegram
Syllables: tel·e·gram/ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/
telegram noun: a message transmitted by telegraph.
Noun (1)
telegram (plural telegrams)
- 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
- 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'.1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 394
- Synonyms:
- wire, cable, telegrapheme
Verb (1)
telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)
- To send a telegram.
- 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.1984 August 5, “Women Lawyers Unit Describes Its Role”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 May 2015
- 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.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 23
- To send a telegram to (a person).
- 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.”2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2015
- To send (a message) in a telegram.
Proper noun capitalized: Telegram
Telegram
- An encrypted, cloud-based instant messaging service.
- Following his arrest, Telegram said Durov had “nothing to hide” and that it was “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”2024 September 23, Clare Duffy, “After CEO’s arrest, Telegram says it will now turn some bad actors’ data over to law enforcement”, in CNN
Noun (2) capitalized: Telegram
Telegram (plural Telegrams)
- A Telegram channel.
- Does anyone have the Telegram link?
Verb (2) capitalized: Telegram
Telegram (third-person singular simple present Telegrams, present participle Telegramming, simple past and past participle Telegrammed)
- To send a message using the Telegram instant messaging service.
telegram meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
telegram in Hindi
- message sent by telegraph
- तार tār, टेलीग्राम ṭelīgrām, टेलिग्राम ṭeligrām
telegram in Tamil
- message sent by telegraph
- தந்தி tanti
telegram in Marathi
- टेलिग्राम
telegram in Urdu
- message sent by telegraph
- تار tār, ٹیلی گِرام ṭelī girām, ٹیلی گْرام ṭelī grām, ٹیلِیگْرام ṭelīgrām, بَرْقِیَہ barqiya
More languagesFewer languages
- telegram in Bengali
- টেলিগ্রাম ṭeligram
- telegram in Telugu
- టెలిగ్రామ్
- telegram in Malayalam
- കമ്പി, കമ്പിസന്ദേശം, കമ്പിവാർത്ത, വിദ്യുത്വാർത്ത
- telegram in Kannada
- ತಂತಿ
- telegram in Punjabi
- ਟੈਲੀਗ੍ਰਾਮ, ਤਾਰ-ਪੱਤਰ
- telegram in Gujarati
- ટેલિગ્રામ
- telegram in Odia
- ଟେଲିଗ୍ରାମ, ଟେଲିଗ୍ରାମ୍
- telegram in Nepali
- टेलिग्राम, तार (टेलिग्राम
- telegram in Pashto
- تلګرام telegrām, تلګراف telegrāf
- telegram in Tagalog
- pahatid-kawad
- telegram in Arabic
- بَرْقِيَّة barqiyya, تِلِغْرَاف tiliḡrāf, تَلِغْرَاف taliḡrāf
- telegram in Malay
- telegram, kawat, surat kawat, berita kawat
- telegram in Indonesian
- kabar kawat, surat kawat, telegram
- telegram in Thai
- โทรเลข too-rá-lêek
- telegram in Vietnamese
- điện báo, điện tín, điện văn
- telegram in Myanmar
- ကြေးနန်း kre:nan:, သံကြိုးစာ samkrui:ca, သံကြိုး samkrui:
Examples of telegram in a sentence
- Telegram founder Pavel Durov finally broke his silence since his high-profile arrest in France in August.
- The little man who had started all the trouble with his singing telegram had powdered.
- "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.
Synonyms of telegram
Forms of telegram
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | telegrams |
| plural | Telegrams |
| alternative form (dated) | telegramme |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | telegrams |
| present participle | telegramming |
| past participle | telegrammed |
| past | telegrammed |
| third-person singular present | Telegrams |
| present participle | Telegramming |
| past participle | Telegrammed |
| past | Telegrammed |
Origin of telegram
From tele- + -gram.
From telegram.
Words formed from telegram
Questions about telegram
- What does telegram mean?
- Telegram means a message transmitted by telegraph.
- What is telegram in Hindi?
- Telegram in Hindi is तार (tār), टेलीग्राम (ṭelīgrām), टेलिग्राम (ṭeligrām). See Telegram meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is telegram?
- Telegram can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce telegram?
- Telegram is pronounced /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/.
- What is the plural of telegram?
- The plural of telegram is telegrams.
Words near telegram in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: telegram (page history and authors); Telegram (page history and authors); telegram (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); telegram (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); telegram (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); telegram (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); telegram (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); telegram (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); telegram (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); telegram (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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