Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/
television
- (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.
- (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
- I have an old television in the study.
- (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
- (uncountable) Vision at a distance.
- 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:
- the magic mirror … which furnished him television of his family and country
- 1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:
- French: télévision
- German: Fernsehen, Television
- Italian: televisione
- Portuguese: televisão
- Russian: телеви́дение
- Spanish: televisión
- French: téléviseur, télévision (fam.), télé, poste de télévision
- German: Fernseher, Fernsehapparat, Glotze (informal)
- Italian: televisore
- Portuguese: televisor, televisão, aparelho televisor
- Russian: телеви́зор
- Spanish: televisor, televisión, tele
- French: télévision
- German: Fernsehen
- Italian: televisione
- Portuguese: televisão
- Russian: телеви́дение
- Spanish: televisión, tele
television (televisions, present participle televisioning; past and past participle televisioned)
- (neologism, informal) To watch television.
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