television
/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Uncountable
noun
An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "She watched television for over five hours last night."
- "Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.”"
- "I have an old television in the study."
- "fifty-seven channels and nothing on television"
- "Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself."
- "[…] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country"
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
Origin
- Source language: French