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English Dictionary: telegram by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
telegram
n
  1. a message transmitted by telegraph [syn: telegram, wire]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Telegram \Tel"e*gram\, n. [Gr. [?] far + -gram.]
      A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
  
      Note: [bd]A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask
               leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word
               into the vocabulary. It is telegram, instead of
               telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic communication.[b8]
               --Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).
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