telegram

Speech parts

1. telegram - Noun

2. telegram - Verb

Meaning

A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

telegraph report communication message dispatch cablegram telegraphic msg call signal account bulletin broadcast transmission cable
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Antonyms

unwire

Hypernyms

message

Hyponyms

cable cablegram night letter overseas telegram letter telegram

Phrases with the word

author of the long telegram telegram-like

Examples

Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram. Jesse Owens

It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram. Cassandra Clare

I can't wait 'til you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram. Cassandra Clare

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' Henny Youngman

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. Howard K. Smith

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. Mark Twain

Close letter words and terms

telegonic telegonous telegony telegramese telegramlike telegrammatic