television
//ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən//
Forms
- Plural
- televisions
- present (v1)
- television
- past (v2)
- televisioned
- past participle (v3)
- televisioned
- present participle
- televisioning
- 3rd person singular
- televisions
Definitions
1.An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
- She watched television for over five hours last night.
- 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.”
2.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.
3.Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- I'm tired of watching television.
1.To watch television.(informal)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1148
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.