Television
/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
nounAn electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
Sentence Examples
Do you know how high the television tower is?
I make it a rule not to watch television after nine o'clock.
In the past central government had a monopoly on television broadcasting.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Every evening, the family gathered around the ____ to watch the news.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We like to sit in the living room and watch an interesting documentary on the ____ after we finish our dinner tonight today.
Word Origin & History
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"[…] 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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CEFR Practice Quiz
Every evening, the family gathered around the ____ to watch the news.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We like to sit in the living room and watch an interesting documentary on the ____ after we finish our dinner tonight today.