Television ˈtelɪvɪʒn Screen Programmes Broadcast Noun Bre Colour

• a colour television
• a widescreen television
• a plasma screen television
• to turn the television on/off

television

1. a piece of electrical equipment with a screen on which you can watch programmes with moving pictures and sounds
• a colour television
• a widescreen television
• a plasma screen television
• to turn the television on/off
2. the programmes broadcast on 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
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• satellite/terrestrial/cable/digital television
• the television news
• a television documentary
• a television company/presenter
• I'd like to work in television (= for a television company).
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.
• I recognize you. Aren't you on television?

Extra Examples

• Millions watched the events on live television.
• She recalled her first television appearance forty years ago.
• She works in television.
• The Olympics receive extensive television coverage.
• The children watched television for most of the evening.
• The state television screened pictures of the trial.
• The trial was broadcast by local television.
• We were watching the news on television.
• a television adaptation of the popular novel

Word Origin

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