television

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A device with a screen and speakers for watching broadcast programmes.

   We bought a new television for the living room.

2. 2
   noun

   The system of sending pictures and sound that people watch on a screen.

   She watched television for hours last night.

3. 3
   noun

   The programmes broadcast on television.

   There's nothing good on television tonight.

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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.

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