television: meaning and words from its letters
10 letters · 13 letter points · starts with T · ends with N
Meaning of television
noun
- uncountable
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Example: She watched television for over five hours last night.
- countable
An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
Example: I have an old television in the study.
- uncountable
Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
Example: fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
- dated, uncountable
Vision at a distance.
Listed forms: televisions.
Source: Wiktionary — television.
verb
- informal, neologism
To watch television.
Listed forms: televisions, televisioning, televisioned.
Source: Wiktionary — television.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for television.
noun
broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
noun
a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
- television system
noun
an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
- television receiver
- television set
- tv
- tv set
- idiot box
- boob tube
- telly
- goggle box
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is television in our word lists?
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Letter-value score of television
T(1) + E(1) + L(1) + E(1) + V(4) + I(1) + S(1) + I(1) + O(1) + N(1) = 13 points.
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Anagrams of television
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from television
313 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in television. Showing up to 24, longest first.