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Definition of Telly
1. Noun. An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen. "The British call a tv set a telly"
Terms within: Kinescope, Picture Tube, Television Tube
Generic synonyms: Receiver, Receiving System
Group relationships: Television, Television System
Category relationships: Telecasting, Television, Tv, Video
Definition of Telly
1. Noun. Television ¹
2. Noun. A television set ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Telly
1. a television set [n -LIES or -LYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telly
Literary usage of Telly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"(This he was to say to get the obacco-box of them.) I said to Kelly, Let is sell
him the box, may-be he will buy it. telly said, No, let us ding it ; it is ..."
2. The Myroure of Oure Ladye: Containing a Devotional Treatise on Divine by John Henry Blunt, Thomas Gascoigne, Syon Abbey (1873)
"... union of the telly th. how the father and the holy coste were w/tA incarnation.
cure lorde iesu ..."
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