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telegraph
Meaning: a device or system for sending coded messages over long distances by wire
telegraph in a sentence
How telegraph is used in real sentences:
News of the victory reached the capital by telegraph long before the soldiers returned home.
Reporters camped outside the station all night, waiting for the telegraph to bring word of the election results.
“The earlier researchers had sent each weekly report by telegraph.”
— from the passage Mosquitoes in the Marsh
Synonyms for telegraph
Other words for telegraph — wire and cable — carry the same meaning.
- wire
- cable
Where it comes from
From Greek tele 'far' and graphein 'to write'
Word parts
- tele — beyond, afar
telegraph: tele (far) + graph (write)
Memory hook
TELE (far) + GRAPH (write) — writing sent across a distance.