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telegram

noun
🔊/ˈtelɪɡræm/
🔊/ˈtelɪɡræm/
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  1. a message sent by telegraph and then printed and given to somebody电报（用电信号传递的信息）
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • congratulatory
    verb + telegram
    • send (somebody)
    • deliver
    • get
    • …
    telegram + verb
    • arrive
    • come
    preposition
    • telegram from
    • telegram to
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    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from tele- ‘at a distance’ + -gram (see gram), on the pattern of telegraph.