radiogram

English

Etymology 1

Blend of radio +‎ telegram

Noun

radiogram (plural radiograms)

1. A message, like a telegram, transmitted by radio rather than wires.

Translations

a message, like a telegram, transmitted by radio

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無線電報／无线电报 (zh) (wúxiàn diànbào), 无线电报 (zh) (wúxiàn diànbào)

• Finnish: radiosanoma
• French: radiogramme (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Funkspruch (de) m
• Japanese: 無線電報 (むせんでんぽう, musen denpō)
• Russian: радиогра́мма (ru) f (radiográmma)
• Tagalog: hatidlap

Etymology 2

Blend of radio +‎ gramophone

Noun

radiogram (plural radiograms)

1. An entertainment device that combined a radio and a record player or gramophone.
   • 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 96:

     He opens he plywood door that conceals the radiogram. The record is already on the turntable: Mile Davis letting loose.

Translations

device combining radio and gramophone

• Finnish: radiogramofoni, radio-levysoitin
• French: radio-phonographe (fr) m
• German: Musiktruhe f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: radiofonografo (it) m
• Russian: радио́ла (ru) f (radióla)
• Swedish: radiogrammofon c

Etymology 3

radio- +‎ -gram

Noun

radiogram (plural radiograms)

1. A radiograph

Derived terms

• radiogrammatic

Translations

radiograph — see radiograph

See also

• stereogram