television

plural televisions

1. uncountablebroadcastingAn electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

   She watched television for over five hours last night.

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   Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.”

   2026 March 16, Peter Baker, “In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

2. countableAn 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.

   Synonyms: television set, TV set, idiot box

3. uncountableCollectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

   fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

4. dateduncountableVision at a distance.

   […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country

   1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165

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   Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.

   1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue

present singular third person televisions · participle present televisioning · participle past televisioned · past televisioned

1. informalneologismTo watch television.