English Explanatory Dictionary

television

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
  2. An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
  3. Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
  4. Vision at a distance.
verb
  1. To watch television.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/ /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/ /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/ /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/ En-uk-television.ogg en-us-television.ogg

Word forms

television televisions televisioning televisioned

Etymology

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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.

Synonyms

boob tube cultural barbiturate electric tit electronic babysitter glass teat goggle box idiot box idiot's lantern magic box shit box television set telly the box the tube TV zombie box TV set

Related words

televise televize televisional televisionally televisionary televisual TV

Derived words

ambush television analog television antitelevision appointment television 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 network 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 black television channel televisionish television journalism televisionless televisionlike television match official television movie television network television personality television program television programme television receive-only television receiver television series television show television star television station television stone television studies television tube
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