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television

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See also: televisión, télévision, and télévîsion

English

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an early television (noun sense 2)

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
Middle English visioun
English vision
English television

    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 First attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.[1][2]

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    • IPA(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/
    • Audio (UK):(file)
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪʒən

    Noun

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    television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

    2. (uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
      Alternative form: TV (initialism)
      She watched television for over five hours last night.
      • 2026 March 16, Peter Baker, “In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
        Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.”
        (Can we archive this URL?)
    4. (countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
      Alternative form: TV (initialism)
      Synonyms: television set, TV set; idiot box (derogatory)
      I have an old television in the study.
    5. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
      fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
    6. (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

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    Verb

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    television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)

    1. (neologism, informal) To watch television.

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    References

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    1. ^ “television, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “television, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
    2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “television”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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    Finnish

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    Noun

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    television

    1. genitive singular of televisio

    Lombard

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /televiˈzjuːŋ/
    • IPA(key): [televiˈzjũːŋ] (Western)
    • IPA(key): [televiˈzju] (Eastern)

    Noun

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    television

    1. television

    Occitan

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    television f (plural televisions)

    1. television

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    Etymology

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    From English television, from tele- +‎ vision.

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    Noun

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    television c

    1. television

    Declension

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    Declension of television
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite television televisions
    definite televisionen televisionens
    plural indefinite — —
    definite — —
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