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noun
1.
a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
2.
to telegraph.
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Example Sentences
- The brothers sent a telegram home to let their family know of their progress:.
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World English Dictionary
| telegram (ˈtɛlɪˌɡræm) | |
| —n | |
| cable See also Telemessage a communication transmitted by telegraph | |
| telegrammatic | |
| —adj | |
| tele'grammic | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
telegram
"telegraphic dispatch," 1852, coined by E.P. Smith of Rochester, N.Y., from tele-, as in telegraph + -gram, and introduced in the Albany "Evening Journal" of April 6, 1852. Purists pointed out that this is an erroneous formation, and the correct
EXPAND word would be telegrapheme (which is close to the Mod.Gk. word).
COLLAPSE
"May I suggest to such as are not contented with "Telegraphic Dispatch" the rightly constructed word 'telegrapheme'? I do not want it, but ... I protest against such a barbarism as 'telegram.' " [Richard Shilleto, Cambridge Greek scholar, in the London "Times," Oct. 15, 1857]
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