Medium ˈmiːdiəm Modern Communication Noun Bre Radio/Television Electronic/Audiovisual

• the medium of radio/television
• electronic/audiovisual media
• television is the modern medium of communication.
• a t-shirt can be an excellent medium for getting your message across.

medium

1. a way of communicating information, etc. to people
• see also media
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• the medium of radio/television
• electronic/audiovisual media
• Television is the modern medium of communication.
• A T-shirt can be an excellent medium for getting your message across.
2. something that is used for a particular purpose
• English is the medium of instruction (= the language used to teach other subjects).
• Video is a good medium for learning a foreign language.
3. the material or the form that an artist, a writer or a musician uses
• the medium of paint/poetry/drama
• Watercolour is his favourite medium.
4. a substance that something exists or grows in or that it travels through
• The bacteria were growing in a sugar medium.
5. a person who claims to be able to communicate with the spirits of dead people
6. something that is in the middle between two choices or two ways of doing something
• She tried to strike a happy medium between making the questions too hard and making them too easy.

Extra Examples

• English is the medium of instruction in many African countries.
• He believes tape will eventually be eliminated as a recording medium.
• Oil paint is her preferred artistic medium.
• Radio is an important communication medium in many countries.
• She experimented with the blog as a new medium for exploring issues.
• She used her novels as a medium for encouraging political debate.
• The gallery has been committed to the photographic medium for 25 years.
• The government communicates through the medium of television.
• the medium of study
• to express yourself through the medium of paint/poetry/drama
• As a political campaigner he quickly learned to exploit the new medium of radio.
• The internet is the modern medium of communication.
• Video is a good medium for practising listening to a foreign language.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent. (originally denoting something intermediate in nature or degree): from Latin, literally ‘middle’, neuter of medius.