Television

Noun

 * 1)  An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
 * It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
 * 1)  A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
 * I have an old television in the study.
 * 1)  Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
 * ... fifty-seven channels and nothing on [television].

Derived terms

 * cable television
 * on television
 * televangelism
 * televangelist
 * television channel
 * television network
 * television station
 * TV

Synonyms

 * boob tube
 * cultural barbiturate
 * electronic babysitter
 * glass teat
 * goggle box
 * idiot box
 * plebvision
 * the shit box
 * television set
 * telly
 * the tube
 * TV

Related terms

 * televisional
 * televisionally
 * televisionary
 * televise, televize
 * televisual

Thesaurus
TV, advice, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, automation, avionics, box, broadcast journalism, channel, communicant, communicator, electron microscopy, electron optics, electron physics, electronic engineering, electronics, electrophysics, enlightener, expert witness, gossipmonger, grapevine, informant, information, information center, information medium, informer, intelligence, interviewee, journalism, line radio, monitor, mouthpiece, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newsmonger, newspaper, newsworthiness, notifier, photoelectricity, press, press association, public relations officer, publisher, radar, radio, radionics, radiophotography, radiotelegraphy, radiotelephony, reportage, reporter, source, spokesman, telegraph agency, teller, telly, the fourth estate, the press, tidings, tipster, tout, transistor physics, tube, wire service, wire wave communication, wired radio, wired wireless, wireless, wireless telegraphy, wireless telephony, witness, word

Etymology
From tele-: + vision:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: televizion
 * Arabic: تلفاز, تلفزيون
 * Armenian: հեռուստատեսություն (heŕustatesut‘yun)
 * Basque: telebista
 * Belarusian: тэлебачанне
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: телевизия
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: televido, televida
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტელევიზია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: terevi
 * Gujarati: દૂરદર્શન
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: टेलिविजन, टेलीविज़न,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, imbakassi
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, televisionis gen.
 * Latvian: televīzija
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: televisyen
 * Maltese: televixin
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: televiziune
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: televizija
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: telebisyon, telebisyon
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: телебачення
 * Vietnamese: (傳形), TV, tivi,  (無線傳形)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: טעלעוויזיע


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تلفاز, تلفزيون, جهاز تلفزيون
 * Armenian: հեռուստացույց (heŕustats‘uyts‘)
 * Basque: telebista
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: téléviseur, télévision (fam.)
 * Georgian: ტელევიზორი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: terevi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic: Sjónvarp
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: televisor
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, テレビセット, 受像機
 * Kamba: ,
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:, televisionis gen.
 * Latvian: televizors
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: televisyen
 * Maltese: televiżjoni
 * Meru:
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: televiziune
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: televizor
 * Sotho: telebishene
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: телевізор
 * Vietnamese: máy truyền hình, TV, tivi
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, set deledu


 * Albanian: televizion
 * Arabic: تلفاز, تلفزيون
 * Armenian: հեռուստատեսություն (heŕustatesut‘yun)
 * Basque: telebista
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: телевизия (televíziǎ)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: televido
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ტელევიზია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: terevi
 * Hebrew:
 * Interlingua: television
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: televisio, televisionis gen.
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: televiżiv
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: televiziune
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: televizija
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: telebisyon
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese: (傳形), TV, tivi,  (無線傳形)
 * Welsh:


 * : televiziono
 * : reo tātaki, pouaka whakaata

Anagrams

 * olivenites

Noun
television



Noun

 * 1) television

Related terms

 * teve
 * tv