telegraphic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
telegraphic (comparative more telegraphic, superlative most telegraphic)
- Of, or relating to the telegraph.
- 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 182:
- It turned out to be no more than the weekly Reuter’s telegram sent as an ordinary letter from the nearest telegraphic office fifty miles away.
- Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.
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Translations[edit]
of, or relating to the telegraph
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brief or concise, resembling a telegram
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