Usually means: Communication system sending messages electronically.
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  1. telegraph: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. telegraph: Merriam-Webster
  3. telegraph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. telegraph: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. telegraph: Collins English Dictionary
  6. telegraph: Vocabulary.com
  7. Telegraph, telegraph: Wordnik
  8. telegraph: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. telegraph: Wiktionary
  10. telegraph: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. telegraph: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. telegraph: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. telegraph: Dictionary.com
  14. telegraph: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. telegraph: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Telegraph (Brisbane), Telegraph (Bulgarian newspaper), Telegraph (UK), Telegraph (album), Telegraph (disambiguation), Telegraph (newspaper), Telegraph (song), Telegraph, The Telegraph (Brisbane), The Telegraph (Calcutta), The Telegraph (India), The Telegraph (Kolkata), The Telegraph (London), The Telegraph (Macon), The Telegraph (Nashua), The Telegraph (U.K.), The Telegraph (UK), The Telegraph (disambiguation), The Telegraph (magazine), The Telegraph (website), The Telegraph, The telegraph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Telegraph: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. telegraph: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. telegraph: Rhymezone
  20. telegraph: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. telegraph: FreeDictionary.org
  22. telegraph: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. telegraph: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. telegraph: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. telegraph: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telegraph: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telegraph: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. telegraph, telegraph: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. telegraph: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. telegraph: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See telegraphed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
noun:  (chiefly historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.
noun:  (video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
verb:  To use a telegraph.
verb:  (figurative) To clearly communicate to another nonverbally, whether by gesture, a change in attitude, or any other sign, especially unintentionally.

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