telegram

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A message transmitted by telegraph.

   There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

2. 2
   verb

   To send a telegram.

   In the brouhaha over the reappointment of Superior Court Judge Sylvia Pressler, we organized massive support - telegramming, telephoning and writing to encourage the State Senate to exercise its advise and consent function responsibly.

3. 3
   verb

   To send a telegram to (a person).

   So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

4. 4
   name

   An encrypted, cloud-based instant messaging service.

   Following his arrest, Telegram said Durov had “nothing to hide” and that it was “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”

5. 5
   noun

   A Telegram channel.

   Does anyone have the Telegram link?

6. 6
   noun

   a message transmitted by telegraph

7. 7
   verb

   To send (a message) in a telegram.

8. 8
   verb

   To send a message using the Telegram instant messaging service.

Etymology

From tele- + -gram.