television set
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən sɛt/
:
televisor
- Mother was crying in front of the television set when I walked in.
- watch on television sets
- own a television set
- sell television sets
So I went to Best Buy and I bought the television set.
- So I went to Best Buy and I bought the television set.
- And I look and there is a script on the, the, the top of my television set.
- My sister's standing by the steps where the television set is and hold on, and she wanted an autograph from LeBron.
- He's from Campbell, but there were there were no like good teams, no sports teams, but they had wrestling and he had it where on the television set.
Examples
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Between 1956 and 1960, homes with television sets grew by 25 percent.
Academic text (2017) -
I heard laughter coming from the television set in the living room.
Fiction book (1992) -
Put the television set down.
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From beyond, it came the sounds of a television set turned up full volume.
Fiction book (1994) -
Then she went into the other room where the writing table and television set were.
Fiction book (1991) -
Then you tried to steal my television set.
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Edward did not own a television set and never turned on his radio.
Academic text (1995) -
There is enough power in town now to operate a small television set.
Academic text (2006) -
In 1960, more than forty-six million households, about 87 percent, had a television set.
Academic text (2017) -
Every evening, the family gathers around the television set to watch their favorite shows.
Synonyms
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1.0
An electronic device with a screen that receives broadcasts and shows moving pictures and sound
332
1.0
A screen device you use at home to watch shows and films
207
3.4
A machine like a television or radio
43
1.0
A machine with a screen that shows moving pictures and sound
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7.9
A machine like a TV that shows programs
11
1.0
A television that shows pictures in color
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8.1
A television set for watching shows
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8.8
A television set people watch to see shows
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7.2
A television people jokingly call a waste of time
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1.0
A television that shows pictures in color rather than black and white
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2.4
A machine that receives TV signals and shows them on a screen
1
6.1
A machine like a radio that receives and makes broadcast signals stronger
A box in the home used to watch TV
How Big
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3.2
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1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and literally built from 'television' (broadcast images/sound) + 'set' (a device or unit), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the television device. This compound is a common, non-idiomatic label (e.g. 'TV set', 'téléviseur') and follows straightforward compositional patterns across languages, making it readily understandable at B1.
Etymology
The noun television set comes from the early days when the whole television was sold as a set of parts inside a wooden box. People used set to mean 'a group of parts', so the phrase came to mean the complete TV you put in your home.