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telegraphists

telegraphists is the plural of telegraphist.

Meaning of telegraphist

Noun

telegraphist (plural telegraphists)

  1. A telegrapher or telegraph operator.
    • He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC

Questions about telegraphists

What is telegraphists the plural of?
Telegraphists is the plural of telegraphist.

Words near telegraphists in the dictionary

  1. telegraphically
  2. telegraphies
  3. telegraphing
  4. telegraphings
  5. telegraphist
  6. telegraphists
  7. telegraphlike
  8. telegraphone
  9. telegraphones
  10. telegraphophone
  11. telegraphophones

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