TELECAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telecast mean? 

• TELECAST (noun)
  The noun TELECAST has 1 sense:

1. a television broadcast

  Familiarity information: TELECAST used as a noun is very rare.

• TELECAST (verb)
  The verb TELECAST has 1 sense:

1. broadcast via television

  Familiarity information: TELECAST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELECAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A television broadcast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("telecast" is a kind of...):

broadcast (message that is transmitted by radio or television)

Meronyms (parts of "telecast"):

film clip (a strip of motion picture film used in a telecast)

Derivation:

telecast (broadcast via television)

• TELECAST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they telecast    ... he / she / it telecasts   
Past simple: telecasted   
Past participle: telecasted   
-ing form: telecasting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Broadcast via television

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

telecast; televise

Context example:

The Royal wedding was televised

Hypernyms (to "telecast" is one way to...):

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

Domain category:

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "telecast"):

colorcast (broadcast in color)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They telecast the information to them

Derivation:

telecast (a television broadcast)

telecaster (a television broadcaster)

telecasting (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)