telegram Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a message transmitted by telegraph
    wire.

WordNet

Tel"e*gram noun
Etymology
Gr. far + -gram.
Definitions
  1. A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch. ✍ "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." Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).

Webster 1913