telegram, wire
(noun) a message transmitted by telegraph
Source: WordNet® 3.1
telegram (plural telegrams)
A message transmitted by telegraph.
• wire, cable
telegram (third-person singular simple present telegrams, present participle telegramming, simple past and past participle telegrammed)
(intransitive) To send a telegram.
(transitive) To send a telegram to (a person).
(transitive) To send (a message) in a telegram.
• Great Elm
Source: Wiktionary
Tel"e*gram, n. Etym: [Gr. -gram.]
Definition: A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
Note: "A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication." Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
