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TELEGRAPHIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does telegraphist mean?
• TELEGRAPHIST (noun)
The noun TELEGRAPHIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who transmits messages by telegraph
Familiarity information: TELEGRAPHIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who transmits messages by telegraph
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
telegraph operator; telegrapher; telegraphist
Hypernyms ("telegraphist" is a kind of...):
manipulator; operator (an agent that operates some apparatus or machine)
Derivation:
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)
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