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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  telegram 
  n  :  a  message  transmitted  by  telegraph  [syn:  {wire}] 




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