television
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʒən
Noun
[edit]television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)
- (uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
- It's a good thing that television doesn't transmit smell.
- (countable) 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.
- (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
- (uncountable, dated) Vision at a distance.
- 1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue:
- 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 a vivid picture of the manager himself.
- 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:
- […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- ambush television
- analog television
- antitelevision
- 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
- nontelevision
- on television
- pay television
- pretelevision
- public access television
- public television
- reality television
- satellite television
- scramblevision
- slow television
- spankavision
- standard-definition television
- Talmudvision
- teleplay
- televangelical
- televangelism
- televangelist
- televangelize
- televidiot
- television channel
- televisionish
- televisionless
- televisionlike
- television match official
- television network
- television personality
- television program
- television receive-only
- television series
- television show
- television star
- television station
- television stone
- television studies
- television tube
- trash television
- TV
- web television
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: テレビジョン (terebijon), → Japanese: テレビ (terebi)
- → Korean: 텔레비전 (tellebijeon)
- → Malay: televisyen
- → Maltese: televixin
- → Sanskrit: दूरदर्शन (dūradarśana) (semantic loan)
- → Swahili: televisheni
- → Yoruba: tẹlifíṣọ̀n
Translations
[edit]medium
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device for receiving television signals
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program broadcasting
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Verb
[edit]television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)
References
[edit]- ^ “television, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “television, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “television”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
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Lombard
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Occitan
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Noun
[edit]television f (plural televisions)
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English television, from tele- + vision.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]television c
Declension
[edit]Declension of television
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | television | televisions |
definite | televisionen | televisionens | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Related terms
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