Telegram

Quick meaning: Telegram is a noun meaning A message transmitted by telegraph.

Meaning

A message transmitted by telegraph.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To send a telegram.
2. (transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
3. (transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.

Example Sentences

On 20 May 1937 when down in Bradford-on-Avon on business, Bulleid received a telegram with the cryptic news: 'Sir Herbert Walker wishes to see you twelve thirty tomorrow—Gresley'.

So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

He was a very posh chap from Oxfordshire, whose dad had been Chancellor and whose mum was obliged to keep telegramming round to find him a job because little Winnie had flunked out of his very expensive school.

In the brouhaha over the reappointment of Superior Court Judge Sylvia Pressler, we organized massive support - telegramming, telephoning and writing to encourage the State Senate to exercise its advise and consent function responsibly.

Word Forms

• telegrams
• telegramme
• telegramming
• telegrammed

Synonyms for telegram

Depending on context, synonyms include wire, cable, telegrapheme.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wire, telegraphic, telegraphy, telegraph, telex, message.

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