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telespectator

telespectator noun: one who witnesses an event on television.

Noun

telespectator (plural telespectators)

  1. One who witnesses an event on television.
    • All these things that affect the psychology of the telespectator, must also affect the dramaturgical techniques of those who create the telecast.1952, Films in Review, volume 3, page 505
    • The "telespectator" never receives the kinds of sutured transmissino conventionalized by Hollywood film, as well as expected of telecommunications by Freud.1994, Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere

Forms of telespectator

pluraltelespectators

Origin of telespectator

From tele- + spectator.

Questions about telespectator

What does telespectator mean?
Telespectator means one who witnesses an event on television.
What part of speech is telespectator?
Telespectator is a noun.
What is the plural of telespectator?
The plural of telespectator is telespectators.

Words near telespectator in the dictionary

  1. telesoftware
  2. telesomatic
  3. telesomatically
  4. telesonic
  5. telesonography
  6. telespectator
  7. telespectators
  8. telespectrograph
  9. telespectrographs
  10. telespectroradiometer
  11. telespectroradiometers

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