telegram
telegrama
definition
noun
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.
a message sent by telegraph and then delivered in written or printed form.
translation of 'telegram'
noun
telegrama
example
First, a 'telegram' or telex may be garbled as a result of a failure in operations.
The whispery thin blue aerogrammes have gone the way of the 'telegram' and the telex.
They were the days of letters, telexes, faxes and 'telegrams' .
Copies of the 'telegrams' I sent as ambassador during this period were projected onto a large screen to allow the judge and jury to read them.
Most of the party's members have called, passed by or sent 'telegrams' asking me to reconsider my decision, and I am grateful to them.
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.
In the days before phones were commonplace, they relayed many messages and 'telegrams' from family members overseas.
These 'telegrams' were delivered by local boys who received a valued six pence.
These two take it upon themselves to deliver the dreaded yellow 'telegrams' to the newly-widowed women living around them.
In 1955, three years after becoming monarch, she sent 105 birthday 'telegrams' to centenarians.
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.
They had been writing so regularly - and often sending 'telegrams' - that she knew almost to the day where the herd would be.
They busy themselves buying stamps, receiving drafting paper for 'telegrams' and in sending joyful, affectionate or sorrowful contents of messages home or to their beloved friends.
In an era before long distance telephone, they had to send 'telegrams' to Aberdeen with their questions.
Over the next few weeks, throwing reserve to the winds, I cajoled interviews, sent 'telegrams' , and wrote letters to every Indian historian of note.
Her job included sending 'telegrams' about casualties to next of kin.
Civil War commanders used 'telegrams' to transmit messages instantly to each other over distances of a thousand or more miles.
The Queen has sent more than 280,000 'telegrams' to couples celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.
No one with any sense ever supposed that telephone calls or 'telegrams' or cables were private.
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.
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