a message sent by telegraph and then printed and given to somebody Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivecongratulatory verb + telegramsend (somebody), deliver, get, … telegram + verbarrive, come prepositiontelegram from, telegram to See full entry Word Originmid 19th cent.: from tele- ‘at a distance’ + -gram (see gram), on the pattern of telegraph.
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