television
Plural: televisions
Noun
- broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; ; - Ernie Kovacs
- "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done"
- a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
- an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
- An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
- An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
- Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- Vision at a distance.
Verb
- To watch television.
Examples
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
- I have an old television in the study.
- She watched the television for over five hours.
Origin / Etymology
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
Synonyms
boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, telecasting, television receiver, television set, television system, telly, TV, tv, tv set, video, cultural barbiturate, electric tit, electronic babysitter, glass teat, idiot's lantern, magic box, shit box, the box, the tube, zombie box
Scrabble Score: 13
television: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtelevision: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
television: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary