television
noun
Simple meaning
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
tehluhvihzhuhnSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈtɛləvɪʒən
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
uncountablebroadcasting
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
uncountable
Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A2 · Elementary
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Varies by meaning
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: (uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Used this way, television is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Nearby words
- tv , more casual, better suited to speech than writing
- telecasting , rarer, so it draws attention
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Close in meaning, but not always interchangeable.
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
A television; an electronic device that receives television signals, and displays the resulting images on a screen.
An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen.
Word Family
Related forms, grouped by how they connect.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
An announcer on television.
An omnidirectional antenna tuned to the broadcast frequencies assigned to television.
Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam.
A tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals.
A television station and its programs.
Electronic equipment that broadcasts or receives electromagnetic waves representing images and sound.
Related Words
Connected to the same idea, not synonyms.
- channelnoun
- channelsnoun
- broadcasternoun
- broadcastingnoun
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Synonyms
Sense: electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images
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