tele

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noun

less common spelling of telly

British, informal

: television

… I asked parents what they thought of children's telly.—

Vanessa Feltz

While you were doing your couch potato number in front of the telly last Sun., 67-yr-old Zadu Taft was swimming across the Golden Gate …—

Berb Caen

Is there any truth to the hundreds of pieces of advice we hear from aunt Jane, who 'saw it on the tele'?—

Patrick Holler

tele-

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combining form

variants or tel-

: distant : at a distance : over a distance

telegram

: telegraph

teletypewriter

: television

telecast

: telecommunication

telemarketing

Word History

Etymology

Combining form

New Latin, from Greek tēle-, tēl-, from tēle far off

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tele-

combining form

: at or over a distance

telegram

: television

telecast

Etymology

Combining form

derived from Greek tēle "far off"

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