tele
/ˈtɛli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative spelling of telly (“television, telegraph, telephone, teleport, telecommunication”).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
According to Jacob L. Moreno, a mutual connection or rapport between people that is not a mere one-way process like empathy or transference.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]"
- "I saw Dr. Ho on the tele and watched with somewhat of doubt."
- "They were up late, talking and watching television. Peter will never forget what happened just after they had gone to bed. 'It's like it was yesterday. We'd just been watching tele and went to bed at about 2.30 am. […]"
- "To Leo [Ellis], growing up, the Royal family were ‘like celebrities, when Kate and William got married, watching them on the tele’."
- "The victim playing of these people is beyond pathetic. You’re on the tele luv. You don’t know where you goal is. […] Maybe leave the proper stuff to the fella’s and put a bit of work in to locate the net you’re guardian. Nonsense Football off the tele."
- "There was the vehement campaign against Labor in the last federal election. One News Corp insider has told me he expects the Tele lost audience as a result. Many of its readers are traditional Labor voters."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
teles (plural)
the Tele (canonical)