Do you know who invented the telegraph?
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Telegraph
//ˈtɛl.ɪ.ɡɹɑːf//
Synonyms for "telegraph" (27 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (13)
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1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
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3 entriesrelated to
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Translations
110 translations across 66 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Arabic
3 entries- بَرْق noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- بَرْقِيَّة noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- تِلِغْرَاف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Armenian
3 entries- հեռագիր noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- հեռագրություն noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- հեռագրել verb (to use a telegraph)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- teleqraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Belarusian
1 entries- тэлегра́ф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Bengali
1 entries- টেলিগ্রাফ noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Bulgarian
2 entries- телегра́ф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- телеграфирам verb (to use a telegraph)
Burmese
1 entries- ကြေးနန်း noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Catalan
2 entries- telègraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrafiar verb (to use a telegraph)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 電信 /电信 noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- 電報 /电报 noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- 電報機 /电报机 noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Czech
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Danish
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Dutch
1 entries- telegraaf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Esperanto
2 entries- telegrafo noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrafi verb (to use a telegraph)
Estonian
1 entries- telegraaf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Finnish
3 entries- lennätin noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- sähköttää verb (to use a telegraph)
- viestittää verb (to clearly communicate to another nonverbally)
French
3 entries- télégraphe noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- dépêcher verb (to use a telegraph)
- télégraphier verb (to use a telegraph)
Georgian
2 entries- ტელეგრაფი noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- ტელეგრაფირება verb (to use a telegraph)
German
3 entries- Telegraph noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- depeschieren verb (to use a telegraph)
- telegraphieren verb (to use a telegraph)
Greek
2 entries- τηλέγραφος noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- τηλεγραφώ verb (to use a telegraph)
Gujarati
1 entries- તારયંત્ર noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Hebrew
1 entries- טֶלֶגְרַפְיָה noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Hindi
3 entries- टेलिग्राफ़ noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- टेलीग्राफ़ noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- दूरलेख noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Hungarian
1 entries- távíró noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Indonesian
2 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrap noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- تِلِگْراف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Irish
1 entries- teileagraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Italian
1 entries- telegrafo noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Japanese
3 entries- 電信 noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- 電報 noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- 電報を送る verb (to use a telegraph)
Kalmyk
1 entries- соңһгдур noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Kazakh
1 entries- телеграф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Khmer
1 entries- ទូរលេខ noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Korean
4 entries- 전보 noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- 전신 noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- 진보(電報)를 보내다 verb (to use a telegraph)
- 타전(打電)하다 verb (to use a telegraph)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- телеграф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Lao
1 entries- ໂທລະເລກ noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Latin
1 entries- tēlegraphum noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Latvian
1 entries- telegrāfs noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Lithuanian
1 entries- telegrafas noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Macedonian
1 entries- телеграф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Malay
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Marathi
2 entries- टेलिग्राफ noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- टेलिग्राफ noun (video games: visible or audible cue)
Mongolian
2 entries- телеграф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- цахилгаан noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Navajo
1 entries- béésh łichíiʼii bee dahaniʼígíí noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Pashto
2 entries- تلګراف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- ټليګراف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Polish
3 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrafować verb (to use a telegraph)
- zatelegrafować verb (to use a telegraph)
Portuguese
2 entries- telégrafo noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrafar verb (to use a telegraph)
Romanian
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Russian
2 entries- телегра́ф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- телеграфировать verb (to use a telegraph)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- telègraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- телѐграф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrafisati verb (to use a telegraph)
- телеграфисати verb (to use a telegraph)
Slovak
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Slovene
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Spanish
2 entries- telégrafo noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrafiar verb (to use a telegraph)
Swedish
2 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegrafera verb (to use a telegraph)
Tajik
1 entries- телеграф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Thai
1 entries- โทรเลข noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Turkish
1 entries- telgraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Turkmen
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Ukrainian
1 entries- телегра́ф noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Urdu
3 entries- ٹیلِیگْراف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- ٹیلی گِراف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- ٹیلی گْراف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Uyghur
1 entries- تېلېگراف noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Uzbek
1 entries- telegraf noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Vietnamese
2 entries- máy điện báo noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- điện báo noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Welsh
3 entries- gwefrebyr noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- pellebyr noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- telegraff noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
Yiddish
3 entries- טעלעגראַף noun (chiefly historical: electrical device)
- דעפּעשירן verb (to use a telegraph)
- טעלעגראַפֿירן verb (to use a telegraph)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Written words, carrier pigeons, the telegraph, and many other devices carried ideas faster and faster from man to man.
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I carelessly ran into the telegraph pole.
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Is the fax a modern form of the telegraph?
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