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telescreen

telescreen noun: a screen for broadcasting television or similar media, especially one that shows propaganda and records or spies on the user.

Noun

telescreen (plural telescreens)

  1. A screen for broadcasting television or similar media, especially one that shows propaganda and records or spies on the user.
    • Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance.1973, Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, The failure of success: ecological values vs. economic myths
    • She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet

Forms of telescreen

pluraltelescreens

Origin of telescreen

From tele- + screen, from television. Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.

Questions about telescreen

What does telescreen mean?
Telescreen means a screen for broadcasting television or similar media, especially one that shows propaganda and records or spies on the user.
What part of speech is telescreen?
Telescreen is a noun.
What is the plural of telescreen?
The plural of telescreen is telescreens.

Words near telescreen in the dictionary

  1. telescopings
  2. telescopist
  3. telescopists
  4. Telescopium
  5. telescopy
  6. telescreen
  7. telescreening
  8. telescreens
  9. telescript
  10. telescriptor
  11. telescriptors

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