Television ˈtelɪvɪʒn Broadcast Watch Programmes Noun Widescreen/Flat Screen/Plasma Turn

• a widescreen/flat-screen/plasma television
• to turn the television on/off
• the series first appeared on television screens in 2017.
• we don't do much in the evenings except watch television.

television

1. a piece of electrical equipment with a screen on which you can watch programmes with moving pictures and sounds
• a widescreen/flat-screen/plasma television
• to turn the television on/off
• The series first appeared on television screens in 2017.
2. the programmes broadcast on television
• SEE ALSO breakfast television
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/breakfast-television
• We don't do much in the evenings except watch television.
3. the system, process or business of broadcasting television programmes
• SEE ALSO cable television
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cable-television
• satellite/terrestrial/digital/network television
• These plays were originally broadcast on live television.
• I'd like to work in television (= for a television company).
• a television show/series/programme/broadcast
• a television drama/documentary/interview/commercial
• a television company/presenter/station/channel
• a television viewer/audience
• a television ad/commercial
• the television news

Extra Examples

• She recalled her first television appearance forty years ago.
• The Olympics receive extensive television coverage.
• The state television screened pictures of the trial.
• The trial was broadcast by local television.
• a television adaptation of the popular novel
• a television camera
4. being broadcast by television; appearing in a television programme
• What's on television tonight?
• Is there anything good on the telly tonight?
• It was on TV yesterday.
• Millions watched the events on live television.
• The film has never been shown on television.
• I recognize you. Aren't you on television?
• She's always appearing on television.

Word Origin

• early 20th cent.: from tele- ‘at a distance’ + vision.