English to Afrikaans Meaning of telegram - telegram

Telegram :

telegram

noun

draad, geur, smaak, smoor

Telegram :: telegramTelegrams :: telegramme

← Telecommunications

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Definitions of telegram in English

Noun(1) a message transmitted by telegraph

Examples of telegram in English

(1) The whispery thin blue aerogrammes have gone the way of the telegram and the telex.(2) First, a telegram or telex may be garbled as a result of a failure in operations.(3) He was a spoilt child and became an utterly self-obsessed adult - he used to lock himself in an upstairs room and send his wife telegrams demanding she deliver him a meal.(4) They had been writing so regularly - and often sending telegrams - that she knew almost to the day where the herd would be.(5) In 1955, three years after becoming monarch, she sent 105 birthday telegrams to centenarians.(6) The Queen has sent more than 280,000 telegrams to couples celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.(7) No one with any sense ever supposed that telephone calls or telegrams or cables were private.(8) They were the days of letters, telexes, faxes and telegrams .(9) In the days before phones were commonplace, they relayed many messages and telegrams from family members overseas.(10) The reality of his family's poverty finally leaves no option but for Frankie to work, but this time he finds a far better job delivering telegrams for the Post Office.(11) These two take it upon themselves to deliver the dreaded yellow telegrams to the newly-widowed women living around them.(12) Civil War commanders used telegrams to transmit messages instantly to each other over distances of a thousand or more miles.(13) These telegrams were delivered by local boys who received a valued six pence.(14) Even after Chamberlain became too sick to attend Cabinet Meetings, Churchill had the main telegrams sent to his home where Chamberlain continued to read them until he died.(15) Her job included sending telegrams about casualties to next of kin.(16) In an era before long distance telephone, they had to send telegrams to Aberdeen with their questions.

Related Phrases of telegram

(1) remittance by telegram ::

oorbetaling deur telegram

(2) incoming telegram ::

inkomende telegram

Related Phrases of telegram

(1) remittance by telegram ::

oorbetaling deur telegram

(2) incoming telegram ::

inkomende telegram

Synonyms

Noun

1. telex ::

teleks

2. wire ::

draad

3. radiogram ::

radiogram

4. cable ::

kabel

5. cablegram ::

Different Forms

telegram, telegrams

English to Afrikaans Dictionary: telegram

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