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Word entry · 8 letters

telegram

Best crossword clue

"Old-style message"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/Part of speech nounSorted aeeglmrtStarts with TEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
1T2E3L4E5G6R7A8M

Definitions

  1. a message transmitted by telegraph

Word origin

From tele- + -gram.

Used in a sentence

  • On 20 May 1937 when down in Bradford-on-Avon on business, Bulleid received a telegram with the cryptic news: 'Sir Herbert Walker wishes to see you twelve thirty tomorrow—Gresley'.
  • He was a very posh chap from Oxfordshire, whose dad had been Chancellor and whose mum was obliged to keep telegramming round to find him a job because little Winnie had flunked out of his very expensive school.
  • So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”

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