television

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tel=e=vi=sion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

television, n.
1 a system for reproducing on a screen visual images transmitted (usu. with sound) by radio signals.
2 (in full television set) a device with a screen for receiving these signals.
3 television broadcasting generally.

THESAURUS

television

TV, advice, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, automation, avionics, box, broadcast journalism, channel, communicant, communicator, electron microscopy, electron optics, electron physics, electronic engineering, electronics, electrophysics, enlightener, expert witness, gossipmonger, grapevine, informant, information, information center, information medium, informer, intelligence, interviewee, journalism, line radio, monitor, mouthpiece, news, news agency, news medium, news service, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newsmonger, newspaper, newsworthiness, notifier, photoelectricity, press, press association, public relations officer, publisher, radar, radio, radionics, radiophotography, radiotelegraphy, radiotelephony, reportage, reporter, source, spokesman, telegraph agency, teller, telly, the fourth estate, the press, tidings, tipster, tout, transistor physics, tube, wire service, wire wave communication, wired radio, wired wireless, wireless, wireless telegraphy, wireless telephony, witness, word

ROGET THESAURUS

television

News

N news, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence, tidings, word, advice, aviso, message, dispatch, despatch, telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy, report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame, talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle, canard, topic of the day, idea afloat, bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings, flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut, narrator, newsmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler, journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry, newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), United Press International, UPI, Associated Press, AP, The Dow Jones News Service, DJ, The New York Times News Service, NYT, Reuters, TASS, The Nikkei, newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man, many-tongued, rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported, rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person, as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless, airy tongues that syllable men's names, what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?.