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Definition: Telegram |
TelegramNoun1. A message transmitted by telegraph. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "telegram" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references) |
Etymology: Telegram \Tel"e*gram\, noun. [Greek expression far -gram.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
19th Century Satire | A form of correspondence sent by a man in a hurry and carried by a boy in sleep. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you receive a telegram, denotes that you will soon receive tidings of an unpleasant character. Some friend is likely to misrepresent matters which are of much concern to you. To send a telegram is a sign that you will be estranged from some one holding a place near you, or business will disappoint you. If you are the operator sending these messages, you will be affected by them only through the interest of others. To see or be in a telegraph office, foretells unfortunate engagements. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Post & Telecom | A written matter intended to be transmitted by telegraphy for delivery to the addresses. This term also includes radio telegrams unless otherwise specified. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TelegramSynonym: wire (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
News | Word, advice, aviso, message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Telegram |
| English words defined with "telegram": cable, cablegram ♦ -gram ♦ letter telegram ♦ night letter ♦ overseas telegram ♦ Telegrammic, telegraph form, telegraphic ♦ unannounced, unheralded, unpredicted ♦ wirer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "telegram": CLERK, ROUTE ♦ DELIVERER, OUTSIDE, disposition clerk, diversion clerk ♦ forwarding centre, forwarding office ♦ put-back ♦ RECONSIGNMENT CLERK, retransmission ♦ sending office, spill-over, SUPERVISOR, DELIVERY DEPARTMENT ♦ telegraph service, telegraphic service. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Telegram" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (telegram), Albanian (cablegram, telegram, wire), Czech (radiotelegram, telegram, wire), Danish (telegram), Dutch (cablegram, telegram), Indonesian (cable, telegram), Norwegian (telegram), Papiamen (telegram), Serbo-Croatian (cablegram, radiotelegram, telegram, wire), Swedish (cable, telegram, wire). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have a telegram for a Dr. Loveless. (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) Yes take down a telegram, Bob. To Mr. Charlie Chaplin, Sennet Studios, Hollywood, California. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) In addition to never having seen a movie, she has never eaten in a restaurant, traveled more than five miles from home, received or sent a telegram, read anything except the funny papers and the Bible, worn cosmetics, cursed, wished someone harm, told a lie on purpose, let a hungry dog go hungry. (Trilogy; writing credit: Truman Capote; Eleanor Perry) | |
Lyrics | Telegram force and ready ("Union of the Snake"; performing artist: Duran Duran) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Telegram (2001) Një telegram një këngë (1982) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Henny Youngman | How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' |
Theodore Roosevelt | To-night while I was preparing to dictate a message to Congress concerning the boiling caldron on the Isthmus of Panama, which has now begun to bubble over, up came one of the ushers with a telegram from you and Ted about the football match. Instantly I bolted into the next room to read it aloud to mother and sister, and we all cheered in unison when we came to the Rah! Rah! Rah! part of it. It was a great score. I wish I could have seen the game. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | No telegram had come. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | A problem common to all electronic music distribution sites at this moment is a long download time. It takes 19 minutes to download 5 min.30 second file (5.3MB) on ISDN line for PCs, which in turn would costs 60 yen, or 60 cents for the use of the telephone line for that length of time. NTT (Nippon Telegram and Telephone company) is developing new technology with which 3MB file may be downloaded in 3 minutes. (references) | |
Travel | Pakistan | Standard e-mail, telegram, facsimile, and telex services are available at post and telegraph offices, larger hotels and at privately owned Public Call Offices. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | A few days after the war began, I received a telegram from Joanne Speicher, the wife of the first pilot killed in the gulf, Lieutenant Commander Scott Speicher. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Telegram" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Telegram" is used about 270 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.67% | 261 | 18,276 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.59% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "telegram": by telegram ♦ express telegram ♦ letter telegram ♦ overseas telegram ♦ send a telegram ♦ send in by telegram ♦ the telegram reads as follows ♦ To milk a telegram. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "telegram": radio-telegram, singing-telegram. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fort worth star telegram | 2,297 |
star telegram | 1,626 |
telegram worcester | 656 |
telegram | 630 |
press telegram | 520 |
ft worth star telegram | 485 |
long beach press telegram | 464 |
leader telegram | 386 |
evening telegram | 383 |
telegram and gazette | 338 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "telegram"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | telegram. (various references) | |
Albanian | telegram (cablegram, wire). (various references) | |
Arabic | بعث (bundle, cast, despatch, dispatch, forward, hand, hand over, mission, reanimate, recall, regenerate, regeneration, renaissance, restoration, resurrect, resurrection, rise, risen, rising, send, send in), برقية (cable, cablegram, despatch, dispatch, telegraph, wire), برق (cable, flamboyance, flamboyancy, fulgurite, glimmer, lightning, mail, shimmer, telegraph, thunderbolt, wire). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | телеграма (aerogram, dispatch). (various references) | |
Catalan | telegrama. (various references) | |
Chinese | 電 (cable, telegraph), "报. (various references) | |
Czech | telegram (radiotelegram, wire). (various references) | |
Danish | telegram. (various references) | |
Dutch | telegram (cablegram, ring, ring conductor, ring lead, ring wire). (various references) | |
Esperanto | telegramo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | fjarrit. (various references) | |
Farsi | تلگرام , تلگراف کردن (Cable), تلگراف (Dispenser, Telegraph, Telegraphy, Ticker). (various references) | |
Finnish | sähke (cable, wire), sähkösanoma (wire). (various references) | |
French | télégramme. (various references) | |
German | Telegramm (cable, cablegram, cablegrams, wire). (various references) | |
Greek | τηλεγράφημα (cablegram, wire). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מברק (cable, cablegram), טל'רמ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | távirat (cable, cablegram, dispatch, Telegraph, telegraph message, tg, wire). (various references) | |
Icelandic | símskeyti. (various references) | |
Indonesian | telegram (cable). (various references) | |
Italian | telegramma (wire). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 電文 , 電 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | で"ぽう (bullying, ostentatious bravado, rough person, teaching Buddhism), で"ぶ" (hearsay, report, rumor). (various references) | |
Korean | 보. (various references) | |
Manx | streng-skeeal, chellegram. (various references) | |
Norwegian | telegram. (various references) | |
Papiamen | telegram. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elegramtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | telegrama (cable, wire). (various references) | |
Romanian | telegramå, telegramã (cable, dispatch, wire), depeşã (dispatch, wire). (various references) | |
Russian | телеграмма (cable, cablegram). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | telegram (cablegram, radiotelegram, wire), depeša (despatch, dispatch). (various references) | |
Spanish | telegrama (cable, wire). (various references) | |
Swedish | telegram (cable, wire). (various references) | |
Thai | โทรเลข (cable). (various references) | |
Turkish | telgraf (cable, cablegram, radio, Telegraph, tellotype, wire). (various references) | |
Turkmen | telegramma (r). (various references) | |
Ukranian | телеграма (cable, cablegram, wire). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bức điện tín, bức điện. (various references) | |
Welsh | brysneges. (various references) | |
Zulu | itelegilamu, ilitelegilamu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "telegram": telegrammed, telegramming, telegrams. (additional references) | |
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"Telegram" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Feldgrau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "telegram" (pronounced te"lugra'm) |
| 6 | -l u g r a' m | hologram, kilogram, milligram. |
| 5 | -u g r a' m | anagram, Centigram, diagram, electrocardiogram, epigram, histogram, logogram, monogram, sonogram. |
| 4 | -g r a' m | cablegram, engram, mammogram, microgram, program, programme, reprogram. |
| 3 | -r a' m | diaphragm, Wolfram. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: gleamer, meltage. | |
-2 letters: armlet, eaglet, elater, ergate, galere, gamete, gelate, legate, malgre, meager, meagre, melter, metage, regale, reglet, relate, remate, remelt, reteam, telega, tergal, tramel. | |
-3 letters: aglee, aglet, agree, alert, alter, ameer, arete, argle, armet, artel, eager, eagle, eagre, eater, egret, elate, gamer, glare, gleam, gleet, grate, great, greet, lager, lamer, laree, large, later, leger, marge, mater, merge, merle, metal, meter, metre, ragee, ramee, ramet, ratel, realm, regal, regma, relet, remet, retag, retem, taler, tamer, targe, telae, terga. | |
-4 letters: agee, ager, alee, alme, earl, egal, eger, gale, game, gate, gear, gelt, germ, geta, glee, gram, grat, gree, lame, late, lear, leer, leet, mage, male, malt, mare, marl, mart, mate, meal, meat, meet, melt, mere, merl, meta, mete, rage, rale, rate, real, ream, reel, rete, tael, tale, tame, tare, teal, team, tear, teel, teem, tela, tele, term, tram, tree. | |
-5 letters: age, ale, alt, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eel, elm, eme, era, ere, erg, eta, gae, gal, gam, gar, gat, gee, gel, gem, get, lag, lam, lar, lat, lea, lee, leg, let, mae, mag, mar, mat, meg, mel, met, rag, ram, rat, ree, reg, rem, ret, tae, tag, tam, tar, tea, tee, teg, tel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: telegrams. | |
+2 letters: geothermal, regimental. | |
+3 letters: agglomerate, electrogram, enlargement, geometrical, realignment, regimentals, telegrammed. | |
+4 letters: agglomerated, agglomerates, conglomerate, electrograms, enlargements, galvanometer, geothermally, governmental, hellgrammite, metallurgies, realignments, telegramming. | |
+5 letters: agglomerative, beleaguerment, conglomerated, conglomerates, dermatologies, electromagnet, embranglement, galvanometers, geometrically, hellgrammites, laryngectomee, telemarketing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6C 65 67 72 61 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .-.. . --. .-. .- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e l e g r a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006C 0065 0067 0072 0061 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471787173846779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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