television

See also: televisión, télévision, and télévîsion

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from French télévision; tele- +‎ vision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Noun

television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

An early television (2)

1. (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.

2. (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.

   I have an old television in the study.

3. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

   fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

4. (uncountable) 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

Synonyms

television

• boob tube
• cultural barbiturate
• electronic babysitter
• glass teat
• goggle box
• idiot box

• magic box
• plebvision
• the shit box
• television set
• telly
• the tube
• TV

Derived terms

television

• cable television
• on television
• televangelism
• televangelist

• television channel
• television network
• television station
• TV

Related terms

television

• televisional
• televisionally
• televisionary

• televise, televize
• televisual

Translations

medium

• Afrikaans: televisie
• Albanian: televizion (sq) m
• Amharic: ቴሌቪዥን (televižn)
• Arabic: تِلْفَاز m (tilfāz), تِلِفِزْيُون m (tilifizyūn), تَلْفَزَة f (talfaza)
• Aramaic: ܦܪܣ ܚܙܘܐ (ܦܪܣ ܚܙܘܐ)
• Armenian: հեռուստատեսություն (hy) (heṙustatesutʻyun)
• Assamese: টিভি (tibhi), দূৰদৰ্শন (durodorxon)
• Asturian: televisión f, televisor m, televisión f
• Azerbaijani: televiziya (az)
• Bashkir: телевидение (televideniye)
• Basque: telebista
• Belarusian: тэлеба́чанне n (teljebáčannje), тэлеві́зія f (teljevízija)
• Bengali: টেলিভিশন (bn) (ṭelibhiśon)
• Breton: skinwel (br)
• Bulgarian: телеви́зия (bg) f (televízija)
• Burmese: တယ်လီဗီးရှင်း (my) (tailibi:hrang:), ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား (my) (rupmrangsamkra:), တယ်လီဗစ်ရှင်း (tailibachrang:), တီဗီ (tibi), တီဗွီ (tibwi)
• Buryat: телевиз (tjeljeviz)
• Catalan: televisió (ca) f
• Central Melanau: telibisien
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電視／电视 (din⁶ si⁶), 电视 (din⁶ si⁶)

  Dungan: дяншы (di͡anšɨ), телевидение (ti͡əli͡əvidi͡ənii͡ə)

  Hakka: 電視／电视, 电视 (thien-sṳ)

  Mandarin: 電視／电视 (zh) (diànshì), 电视 (zh) (diànshì)

  Min Dong: 電視／电视 (diêng-sê), 电视 (diêng-sê)

  Min Nan: 電視／电视 (zh-min-nan), 电视 (tiān-sī)

  Wu: 電視／电视, 电视 (di zr)

• Chuvash: телекурӑм (telek̬urăm)
• Cornish: pellwolok f, televisyon m
• Crimean Tatar: telekörüv
• Czech: televize (cs) f
• Danish: tv (da) n, fjernsyn (da) n, television (da)
• Dutch: televisie (nl) f, kijkbuis (nl) (colloquial)
• Esperanto: televido, (attributive) televida
• Estonian: televisioon (et)
• Faroese: sjónvarp n
• Finnish: televisio (fi)
• French: télévision (fr) f
• Galician: televisión f
• Georgian: ტელევიზია (ṭelevizia)
• German: Fernsehen (de) n, Television f
• Gilbertese: te tamnei
• Greek: τηλεόραση (el) f (tileórasi)
• Guaraní: terevi, ta'ãngambyry
• Gujarati: દૂરદર્શન (dūrdarśan)
• Haitian Creole: televizyon
• Hebrew: טלוויזיה \ טֶלֶוִיזְיָה (he) f (televízya)
• Hindi: टेलिविजन (hi) (ṭelivijan), टेलीविज़न (ṭelīvizan), दूरदर्शन (hi) (dūrdarśan), टीवी (ṭīvī)
• Hungarian: televízió (hu)
• Icelandic: sjónvarp (is) n, imbakassi m
• Ido: televiziono (io)
• Indonesian: televisi (id)
• Interlingua: television
• Irish: teilifís (ga) f
• Italian: televisione (it) f
• Japanese: テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon), テレビ (ja) (terebi), 電視 (ja) (でんし, denshi) (obsolete)
• Kalmyk: телеүзгдл (teleüzgdl)
• Kannada: ದೂರದರ್ಶನ (kn) (dūradarśana)
• Kazakh: теледидар (kk) (teledidar), телевидение (televidenie)
• Khmer: តេឡេ (teelee), ទូរទស្សន៍ (km) (tuurĕəʼtŭəh)
• Korean: 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon), 티브이 (ko) (tibeu'i), 티비 (tibi), 티뷔 (tibwi), 테레비 (ko) (terebi), 텔레비 (tellebi)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: сыналгы (ky) (sınalgı), телевидение (ky) (televideniye)
• Lao: ໂທລະທັດ (lo) (thō la that), ທີວີ (thī wī), ໂທລະພາບ (thō la phāp)
• Latin: tēlevīsiō f
• Latvian: televīzija f, tālrāde f
• Lithuanian: televizija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Feernseher

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• Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦉᦹᧈ (ṫaen¹ṡue¹)
• Macedonian: телеви́зија f (televízija)
• Malagasy: fahitalavitra (mg)
• Malay: televisyen
• Malayalam: ടെലിവിഷൻ (ml) (ṭeliviṣaṉ)
• Maltese: televixin, televiżjoni f
• Manx: chellveeish f
• Maori: pouaka whakaata
• Marathi: दूरचित्रवाणी (dūrcitravāṇī)
• Mongolian: телевиз (mn) (televiz), зурагт (mn) (zuragt)
• Nahuatl: huehcaīxipcaxitl (nah)
• Navajo: níłchʼi naalkidí
• Norman: télévîsion f
• Northern Sami: televišuvdna
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjernsyn (no) n, TV m, televisjon

  Nynorsk: fjernsyn n, TV m, televisjon (sv)

• Occitan: television (oc) f
• Oriya: ଦୂରଦର୍ଶନ (or) (duradarśana)
• Papiamentu: televishon
• Pashto: تلويزيون (ps) m (talwizyún)
• Pennsylvania German: guckbax
• Persian: تلویزیون (fa) (televizion)
• Polish: telewizja (pl) f
• Portuguese: televisão (pt) f
• Quechua: tiliwisiyun, ñawikaruy
• Romanian: televiziune (ro) f
• Russian: телеви́дение (ru) n (televídenije), ТВ (ru) n (TV)
• Rusyn: телеві́зія f (televízija)
• Samoan: televise
• Santali: ᱧᱮᱱᱮᱞᱚᱢ (ñenelôm)
• Scots: televeesion
• Scottish Gaelic: telebhisean m, cian-dhealbh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: телевизија f

  Roman: televizija (sh) f

• Shona: tiivhii
• Sinhalese: රූපවාහිනිය (rūpawāhiniya), ටීවී (ṭīwī), ටෙලි (ṭeli)
• Slovak: televízia f
• Slovene: televizija (sl) f
• Sotho: televishene
• Spanish: televisión (es) f
• Swahili: televisheni (sw), runinga (sw)
• Swedish: television (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠐꠤꠜꠤ (ṭibí)
• Tagalog: telebisyon, tanlap
• Tajik: телевизион (tg) (televizion)
• Tamil: தொலைக்காட்சி (ta) (tolaikkāṭci)
• Tatar: телевидение (telewideniye)
• Telugu: టెలివిజన్ (te) (ṭelivijan)
• Thai: โทรทัศน์ (th) (too-rá-tát), ทีวี (th) (tii-wii), สื่อโทรทัศน์
• Tibetan: བརྙན་འཕྲིན (brnyan 'phrin)
• Tsonga: mavonakule
• Turkish: televizyon (tr)
• Turkmen: telewizion
• Ukrainian: телеба́чення n (telebáčennja), телеві́зія f (televízija)
• Urdu: ٹیلی ویژن (ṭelīvižan), بعید نما (ba'īd numā)
• Uyghur: تېلېۋىزىيە (tëlëwiziye)
• Uzbek: televideniye (uz)
• Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形), TV (vi), ti-vi, vô tuyến truyền hình (無線傳形)
• Volapük: televid
• Welsh: teledu (cy) m
• West Frisian: televyzje
• Yakut: телевидение (televideniye)
• Yiddish: טעלעוויזיע f (televizye)
• Yoruba: àfigbéwòran
• Zulu: thelevishini

device for receiving television signals

• Afrikaans: televisie
• Albanian: televizor (sq) m
• Arabic: تِلْفَاز m (tilfāz), تِلِفِزْيُون m (tilifizyūn), جِهَاز تِلِفِزْيُون m (jihāz tilifizyūn)
• Armenian: հեռուստացույց (hy) (heṙustacʻuycʻ)
• Asturian: televisor m, televisión f, televisor m
• Azerbaijani: televizor (az)
• Bashkir: телевизор (televizor)
• Basque: telebista
• Belarusian: тэлеві́зар m (teljevízar)
• Bengali: টেলিভিশন সেট (ṭelibhiśon seṭ), টেলিভিশন (bn) (ṭelibhiśon)
• Bulgarian: телеви́зор (bg) m (televízor)
• Catalan: televisió (ca) f, televisor (ca) m
• Central Dusun: televisyen
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電視機／电视机 (din⁶ si⁶ gei¹), 电视机 (din⁶ si⁶ gei¹)

  Dungan: дяншыҗи (di͡anšɨži), телевизор (ti͡əli͡əvizor)

  Mandarin: 電視機／电视机 (zh) (diànshìjī), 电视机 (zh) (diànshìjī)

• Cornish: pellwolok f, televisyon m
• Cree: ᒋᑲᐢᑌᐸᔨᒋᑲᐣ (chikastepayichikan)
• Czech: televizor (cs) m, televize (cs) f, televizní přijímač m
• Danish: fjernsyn (da) n, tv (da) n
• Dutch: televisie (nl) m
• Esperanto: televidilo
• Estonian: televiisor, teler
• Faroese: sjónvarpstól n
• Finnish: televisio (fi)
• French: téléviseur (fr) m, télévision (fr) f (fam.), télé (fr) f, poste de télévision (fr) m
• Galician: televisor m, televisión f, tele (gl) f
• Georgian: ტელევიზორი (ṭelevizori)
• German: Fernseher (de) m, Fernsehapparat (de) m, Glotze (de) f (informal)
• Greek: τηλεόραση (el) f (tileórasi)
• Greenlandic: fjernsyni
• Guaraní: terevi
• Hebrew: טלוויזיה \ טֶלֶוִיזְיָה (he) f (televízya)
• Hindi: दूरदर्शन (hi) (dūrdarśan), टेलिविजन सेट (ṭelivijan seṭ)
• Hungarian: tévékészülék
• Icelandic: sjónvarp (is), sjónvarpstæki (is) n
• Ido: televidilo (io), televiziono (io)
• Indonesian: televisi (id)
• Interlingua: televisor
• Irish: teilifíseán (ga) m
• Italian: televisore (it) m
• Japanese: テレビ (ja) (terebi), テレビセット (terebisetto), 受像機 (じゅぞうき, juzōki)
• Kalmyk: зургт (zurgt)
• Kamba: tivii, tivii
• Kazakh: телевизор (kk) (televizor), теледидар (kk) (teledidar)
• Khmer: ទូរទស្សន៍ (km) (tuurĕəʼtŭəh)
• Kikuyu: tivii
• Korean: 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon), 티비 (tibi), 티뷔 (tibwi), 텔레비 (tellebi)
• Kyrgyz: телевизор (ky) (televizor)
• Lao: ເຄື່ອງທີວີ (khư̄ang thī wī)
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• Latin: tēlevīstrum f, televisio m
• Latvian: televizors m tālrādis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: televizorius (lt) m
• Luhya: etivii
• Lü: ᦶᦎᧃᧈᦉᦹᧈ (ṫaen¹ṡue¹)
• Macedonian: телеви́зор m (televízor)
• Malay: televisyen, peti gambar
• Maltese: televiżjoni f
• Manx: çhellveeishan m
• Maori: taonga whakaata
• Meru: tivii
• Mongolian: телевизор (mn) (televizor), зурагт (mn) (zuragt)
• Navajo: níłchʼi naalkidí
• Norman: télévîsion f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjernsyn (no) n, TV m, fjernsynsapparat n

  Nynorsk: fjernsyn n, TV m, fjernsynsapparat m

• Occitan: television (oc) f
• Ojibwe: mazinaatesijigan
• Polish: telewizor (pl) m
• Portuguese: televisor (pt) m, televisão (pt) f, aparelho televisor m
• Romanian: televizor (ro) n
• Russian: телеви́зор (ru) m (televízor), те́лик (ru) m (télik) (colloquial), телевизио́нный приёмник m (televiziónnyj prijómnik)
• Scots: televeesion
• Scottish Gaelic: telebhisean m, cian-dhealbh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: телевизор m

  Roman: televizor (sh) m

• Slovak: televizor m
• Slovene: televizor m, televizijski sprejemnik m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: telewizor m

• Sotho: telebishene
• Spanish: televisor (es) m, televisión (es) f, tele (es) f
• Swahili: runinga (sw), televisheni (sw)
• Swedish: television (sv), TV (sv) c, TV-apparat (sv) c
• Tagalog: tanlap, telebisyon
• Tajik: телевизор (tg) (televizor)
• Tamil: தொலைக்காட்சிப் பெட்டி (tolaikkāṭcip peṭṭi)
• Tatar: телевизор (telewizor)
• Thai: โทรทัศน์ (th) (too-rá-tát), เครื่องรับโทรทัศน์
• Turkish: televizyon (tr), televizyon alıcısı (tr)
• Turkmen: telewizor
• Ukrainian: телеві́зор m (televízor)
• Urdu: ٹیلی ویژن سیٹ (ṭelīvižan seṭ)
• Uyghur: تېلېۋىزور́ (tëlëwizoŕ)
• Uzbek: televizor (uz)
• Vietnamese: máy thu hình, TV (vi), ti-vi
• Volapük: televidöm
• Welsh: teledu (cy) m, set deledu m
• Yiddish: טעלעוויזאָר m (televizor)
• Yup'ik: tiiviiq

program broadcasting

• Albanian: televizion (sq)
• Arabic: تِلْفَاز m (tilfāz), تِلِفِزْيُون m (tilifizyūn)
• Armenian: հեռուստատեսություն (hy) (heṙustatesutʻyun)
• Basque: telebista
• Bulgarian: телеви́зия (bg) f (televízija)
• Catalan: televisió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電視／电视 (din⁶ si⁶), 电视 (din⁶ si⁶)

  Mandarin: 電視／电视 (zh) (diànshì), 电视 (zh) (diànshì)

• Cornish: pellwolok f, televisyon m
• Czech: televize (cs) f
• Danish: tv (da) n
• Dutch: televisie (nl) m
• Esperanto: televido
• Faroese: sjónvarp n
• Finnish: televisio (fi)
• French: télévision (fr) f
• Galician: televisión f, tele (gl) f
• Georgian: ტელევიზია (ṭelevizia)
• German: Fernsehen (de) n
• Greek: τηλεόραση (el) f (tileórasi)
• Guaraní: terevi
• Hebrew: טלוויזיה \ טֶלֶוִיזְיָה (he) f (televízya)
• Icelandic: sjónvarp (is) n
• Interlingua: television
• Irish: teilifís (ga) f
• Italian: televisione (it) f
• Japanese: テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon)
• Korean: 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon)
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• Latin: televisio f
• Macedonian: телевизија f (televizija)
• Malay: televisyen
• Maltese: televiżiv
• Manx: çhellveeish f
• Navajo: níłchʼi naalkidí
• Norman: télévîsion f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fjernsyn (no) n, TV m

  Nynorsk: fjernsyn n, TV m

• Persian: تلویزیون (fa) (televizion)
• Polish: telewizja (pl) f
• Portuguese: televisão (pt) f
• Romanian: televiziune (ro) f
• Russian: телеви́дение (ru) n (televídenije)
• Scottish Gaelic: telebhisean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: телевизија f

  Roman: televizija (sh) f

• Slovak: televízia f
• Spanish: televisión (es) f, tele (es) f
• Swahili: televisheni (sw)
• Swedish: television (sv)
• Tagalog: telebisyon
• Thai: โทรทัศน์ (th) (too-rá-tát)
• Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形), TV (vi), ti-vi, vô tuyến truyền hình (無線傳形), phát hình
• Welsh: teledu (cy) m

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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} televiziono (io)
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• Maori: ^{(please verify)} reo tātaki, ^{(please verify)} pouaka whakaata

Verb

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

1. (neologism, informal) To watch television.

Anagrams

• olivenites

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Finnish

Noun

television

1. genitive singular of televisio

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Lombard

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teleˈviʒun/

Noun

television

1. television

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

television f (plural televisions)

1. television

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Swedish

Etymology

From English television, from tele- +‎ vision.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛlɛvɪˈɧuːn/

• Audio:

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Noun

television c

1. television

Declension

Declension of television
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	television	televisionen	—	—
Genitive	televisions	televisionens	—	—

Related terms

• teve
• tv