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# telegram

«telegram» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short written message sent by wire or radio, once paid…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (telegrams)

### meaning for a pupil

A telegram is a short written message sent by wire or radio, once paid for by the word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegram/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a message that brings news, often bad news, in old stories

### examples

- The postman brought a telegram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegram/#x1)
- The telegram said Grandad was ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegram/#x2)
- In the old film a telegram arrived with bad news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegram/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «telegram» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegram/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.