Hypertext Webster Gateway: "telegram"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Telegram \Tel"e*gram\, n. [Gr. ? far + -gram.]
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).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
telegram
n : a message transmitted by telegraph [syn: {wire}]
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