TELEGRAPHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telegrapher mean? 

• TELEGRAPHER (noun)
  The noun TELEGRAPHER has 1 sense:

1. someone who transmits messages by telegraph

  Familiarity information: TELEGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEGRAPHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who transmits messages by telegraph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

telegraph operator; telegrapher; telegraphist

Hypernyms ("telegrapher" is a kind of...):

manipulator; operator (an agent that operates some apparatus or machine)

Derivation:

telegraph (apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code))

telegraph (send cables, wires, or telegrams)

telegraphy (apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code))

telegraphy (communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire)