television
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Example
“She watched television for over five hours last night.”
Other meanings
An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
“I have an old television in the study.”
Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
“fifty-seven channels and nothing on television”
Synonyms
- box
- tube
- video
Related words
- smellevision
- televisionese
- cable television
- ambush television
- antitelevision
- cablevision
- cellevision
- nontelevision
- pretelevision
- scramblevision
- spankavision
- Talmudvision
Word history
From French "télévision".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “television” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.