television
/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/
television noun: an electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Noun
television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)
- An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
- She watched television for over five hours last night.
- Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.”2026 March 16, Peter Baker, “In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
- An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
- I have an old television in the study.
- Synonyms:
- television set, TV set, idiot box
- Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
- Vision at a distance.
- Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television...1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue
- […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165
Verb
television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)
- To watch television.
television meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
television in Hindi
- medium
- टेलिविजन ṭelivijan, टेलीविज़न ṭelīvizan, दूरदर्शन dūrdarśan, टीवी ṭīvī
- device for receiving television signals
- दूरदर्शन dūrdarśan, टेलिविजन सेट ṭelivijan seṭ
television in Tamil
- medium
- தொலைக்காட்சி tolaikkāṭci, தொலைநோக்கி tolainōkki
- program broadcasting
- தொலைக்காட்சி tolaikkāṭci
- device for receiving television signals
- தொலைக்காட்சிப்பெட்டி tolaikkāṭcippeṭṭi, தொலைக்காட்சி tolaikkāṭci
television in Marathi
- medium
- दूरचित्रवाणी dūrcitravāṇī
television in Urdu
- medium
- ٹیلی وِیژَن ṭelī vīźan, بَعِید نُما ba'īd numā, دُور نُمائی dūr numāī
- program broadcasting
- دُور نُمائی dūr numāī, ٹیلی وِیژَن ṭelī vīźan
- device for receiving television signals
- ٹیلی وِیژَن ṭelī vīźan, دُور نُمائی dūr numāī
More languagesFewer languages
- television in Bengali
- টেলিভিশন ṭelibhiśon, টিভি ṭibhi, দূরদর্শন durdorśon, টেলিভিশন সেট ṭelibhiśon seṭ
- television in Telugu
- టెలివిజన్ ṭelivijan, దూరదర్శిని dūradarśini
- television in Malayalam
- ടെലിവിഷൻ ṭeliviṣaṉ
- television in Kannada
- ದೂರದರ್ಶನ dūradarśana
- television in Punjabi
- ਟੈਲੀਵਿਜ਼ਨ ṭailīvizan
- television in Gujarati
- દૂરદર્શન dūrdarśan, ટેલિવિઝન ṭelivijhan
- television in Odia
- ଦୂରଦର୍ଶନ duradarśana
- television in Sanskrit
- दूरदर्शन dūradárśana
- television in Sinhala
- රූපවාහිනිය rūpawāhiniya, ටීවී ṭīwī, ටෙලි ṭeli
- television in Assamese
- টিভি tibhi, দূৰদৰ্শন durodorxon
- television in Nepali
- टेलिभिजन ṭelebhidzan, टीभि ṭibhi, दूरदर्शन durdarsan
- television in Pashto
- تلويزيون talwizyun
- television in Tagalog
- telebisyon, tanlap, telebisor
- television in Arabic
- تِلْفَاز tilfāz, تِلِفِزْيُون tilifizyūn, تَلْفَزَة talfaza, جِهَاز تِلِفِزْيُون jihāz tilifizyūn
- television in Malay
- televisyen, televisi, peti gambar
- television in Indonesian
- televisi
- television in Persian
- دورنمار
- television in Thai
- โทรทัศน์ too-rá-tát, ทีวี tii-wii, สื่อโทรทัศน์, เครื่องรับโทรทัศน์
- television in Vietnamese
- truyền hình, TV, ti vi, vô tuyến truyền hình
- television in Myanmar
- တယ်လီဗီးရှင်း tailibi:hrang:, ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား rupmrangsamkra:, တယ်လီဗစ်ရှင်း tailibachrang:, တီဗီ tibi
- Kashmiri
- ٹیلی وِجَن ṭēly vijan, ٹؠلِوِجَن ṭyalivijan, دوٗر دَرشَن dūr darśan
Examples of television in a sentence
- Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
- My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
- Television has begun to reflect the growing popularity of extreme sports such as bungee jumping and skateboarding.
Synonyms of television
- television set
- TV set
- idiot box
- boob tube
- cultural barbiturate
- electric tit
- electronic babysitter
- glass teat
- goggle box
- idiot's lantern
7 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- magic box
- shit box
- telly
- the box
- the tube
- TV
- zombie box
Forms of television
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | televisions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | televisions |
| present participle | televisioning |
| past participle | televisioned |
| past | televisioned |
Origin of television
From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
Words formed from television
- ambush television
- analog television
- antitelevision
- appointment television
- black-and-white television
- breakfast television
- cable television
- cablevision
- cellevision
- closed-circuit television
- color television
- colour television
- digital television
- face for television
- guerrilla television
- high-definition television
- jiggle television
- linear television
- made-for-television
- network television
- nontelevision
- on television
- pay television
- pretelevision
- public access television
- public television
- reality television
- satellite television
- scramblevision
- slow television
- smellevision
- spankavision
- standard-definition television
- Talmudvision
- teleplay
- televangelical
- televangelism
- televangelist
- televangelize
- televidiot
- television black
- television channel
- televisionese
- televisionish
- television journalism
- televisionless
- televisionlike
- television match official
- television movie
- television network
- television personality
- television program
- television programme
- television receive-only
- television receiver
- television series
- television show
- television star
- television station
- television stone
Phrases with television
Words that rhyme with television
- division
- vision
- circumcision
- concision
- decision
- collision
- excision
- Frisian
- incision
- misprision
- precision
- revision
10 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about television
- What does television mean?
- Television means an electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
- What is television in Hindi?
- Television in Hindi is टेलिविजन (ṭelivijan), टेलीविज़न (ṭelīvizan), दूरदर्शन (dūrdarśan). See Television meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is television?
- Television can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce television?
- Television is pronounced /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/.
- What is the plural of television?
- The plural of television is televisions.
Words near television in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: television (page history and authors); ਟੈਲੀਵਿਜ਼ਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); दूरदर्शन (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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