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telegramme

telegramme noun: dated spelling of telegram.

Noun

telegramme (plural telegrammes)

  1. Dated spelling of telegram.
    • I hope you have a good trip, my love. Send me a telegramme to let me know when you arrive in Montreal.2016, Tinnean, “Warrick”, in Destiny’s End, [Petersburg, Va.]: JMS Books LLC, →ISBN, page 41

Verb

telegramme (third-person singular simple present telegrammes, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)

  1. Dated spelling of telegram.
    • We urge everyone to telegramme their opposition to the arrest of Francisco Antonio Santos and all others detained, demanding their release and citing the imprisonments as a violation of fundamental political and human rights.1974, L.A.W.G. Letter, volumes 2–3, Toronto, Ont.: Latin American Working Group, →ISSN, →OCLC
    • So it was that Chartier was forced to telegramme en clair, meaning that his contacts with Vichy were open for all to read and were thus largely confined to run-of-the-mill information.2003, Nicholas Atkin, “Agents consulaires or agents provocateurs?”, in The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940–44, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN...

Forms of telegramme

Noun
pluraltelegrammes
Verb
third-person singular presenttelegrammes
present participletelegramming
past participletelegrammed
pasttelegrammed

Origin of telegramme

From tele- + -gramme.

Questions about telegramme

What does telegramme mean?
Telegramme means dated spelling of telegram.
What part of speech is telegramme?
Telegramme can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of telegramme?
The plural of telegramme is telegrammes.

Words near telegramme in the dictionary

  1. telegramese
  2. Telegramgate
  3. telegramlike
  4. telegrammatic
  5. telegrammatically
  6. telegramme
  7. telegrammed
  8. telegrammes
  9. telegrammic
  10. telegramming
  11. telegrams

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