Telegram

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Telegram \Tel"e*gram\, n. [Gr. ? far + -gram.]
     A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: "A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask
           leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word


           into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of
           telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication."
           --Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  telegram
       n : a message transmitted by telegraph [syn: {wire}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "telegram":
     Teletype, advice, cable, cablegram, communication, communique,
     day letter, dispatch, embassy, express, fast telegram, flash,
     letter, message, night letter, pneumatogram, radio, radiogram,
     release, send a wire, sign off, sign on, telegraph, telex, wire,
     word