Television
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English
Noun
Television (countable and uncountable; plural Televisions)- (uncountable) 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) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in 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].
Derived terms
- cable television
- on television
- televangelism
- televangelist
- television channel
- television network
- television station
- TV
Synonyms
- boob tube
- cultural barbiturate
- electronic babysitter
- glass teat
- goggle box
- idiot box
- plebvision
- the shit box
- television set
- telly
- the tube
- TV
Related terms
Thesaurus
TV, advice, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, automation, avionics, box, broadcast journalism, channel, communicant, communicator, electron microscopy, electron optics, electron physics, electronic engineering, electronics, electrophysics, enlightener, expert witness, gossipmonger, grapevine, informant, information, information center, information medium, informer, intelligence, interviewee, journalism, line radio, monitor, mouthpiece, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newsmonger, newspaper, newsworthiness, notifier, photoelectricity, press, press association, public relations officer, publisher, radar, radio, radionics, radiophotography, radiotelegraphy, radiotelephony, reportage, reporter, source, spokesman, telegraph agency, teller, telly, the fourth estate, the press, tidings, tipster, tout, transistor physics, tube, wire service, wire wave communication, wired radio, wired wireless, wireless, wireless telegraphy, wireless telephony, witness, word
Etymology
From tele- (“far off”) + vision (“seeing”).
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Anagrams
Finnish
Noun
television
- genitive singular form of televisio
Swedish
Noun
Television c.
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Declension
uncountable | uncountable | |||
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Common | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative | Television | televisionen | ||
genitive | Televisions | televisionens |