TELEGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telegram mean? 

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

1. a message transmitted by telegraph

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A message transmitted by telegraph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

telegram; wire

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

message (a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "telegram"):

cable; cablegram; overseas telegram (a telegram sent abroad)

letter telegram (a cheaper form of telegram that is sent abroad for delivery the next day)

night letter (a cheaper form of telegram sent for delivery the next day)

 Context examples 

We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These theories take no account of the telegram.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The telegrams from London have been the same: "no further report."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was the maid with a telegram.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"A telegram, Joe," he said. "Read it."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No letter or telegram had come to me at Southampton, and I reached the little villa at Streatham about ten o'clock that night in a fever of alarm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A telegram for you, Mr. Holmes,” said he.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Send a telegram saying I will come at once.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A day later came a telegram from Mendocino County.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“But at any time, day or night, a telegram would bring me down to your help.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)