telegrapher
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9.2
- noun
- /tɛˈlɛɡrəfər/
- Archaic
:
telégrafo
- But some telegraphers figured out that they could continue using their device if they unplugged it using just the current induced by the solar storm.
- Union telegrapher
Examples
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The days of the railroad empire were over, and the house had been derelict before being taken over by the telegrapher and his family.
Fiction book (1993) -
The telegrapher was responsible for conveying urgent news during the war, ensuring communication between troops.
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Why I was the fastest telegrapher in the business.
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Peter Tavistock's father was the town telegrapher, a fact Peter had made known to her on her first day.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Visalia telegrapher reports the line is down, sir.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm an old-time telegrapher, one of the last in the world.
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But surely, the telegrapher from Carson City wouldn't allow such foolishness with his equipment.
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It stood on the east side of town and had been built for the railroad owner, in case he visited in winter and needed a protracted stay, and it commanded the back of the station where the telegrapher's office was located.
Fiction book (1993) -
Taught to play guitar by his mother Elnora, Gene joined the Fields Brothers Marvelous Medicine Show while still in high school, but after graduation in 1925, he became a railroad telegrapher with the Frisco Railway in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
Blog text (6) -
As a skilled telegrapher, she quickly transmitted important messages across long distances.
Synonyms
2
7.1
A person who sends and receives long-distance messages along wires
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6.5
A person who sends and reads messages using hands or flags
A person who sends and receives messages by telegraph
A person who sends messages by telegram
A person who sends messages by cable between distant places
A person who uses a teletype machine to type and send written messages
Surface Forms
Morphology
telegrapher = telegraph (semi-transparent) = tele + graph + er
Adding the regular agentive suffix -er to telegraph straightforwardly yields a person associated with telegraphing.
Etymology
Telegrapher comes from Greek parts tele- meaning 'far' and -graph meaning 'write', the same pieces you see in telephone and autograph, and the ending -er means 'person who'. A telegrapher was originally the person who 'wrote' or sent messages over long distances, which is why it means someone who sends and receives messages by telegraph.