television

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/, /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/, /ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/

Noun

television

1. (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.

2. (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.

   I have an old television in the study.

3. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

   fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

4. (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

Synonyms

Translations

• French: télévision
• German: Fernsehen, Television
• Italian: televisione
• Portuguese: televisão
• Russian: телеви́дение
• Spanish: televisión

Translations

• 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

Translations

• French: télévision
• German: Fernsehen
• Italian: televisione
• Portuguese: televisão
• Russian: телеви́дение
• Spanish: televisión, tele

Verb

television (televisions, present participle televisioning; past and past participle televisioned)

1. (neologism, informal) To watch television.

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