See also: televisión, télévision, and télévîsion

 

Borrowing from French télévision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?l??v???n/, /?t?l??v???n/

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• Rhymes: -???n

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

Derived terms

television

Synonyms

television

Related terms

television

Translations

medium

television set

program broadcasting

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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 form of televisio.

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Swedish

Etymology

tele- +? vision

Pronunciation

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Noun

television c

1. television

Declension

Declension of television

Related terms

• teve
• tv