"telegraphic dispatch," according to Bartlett's 1859 edition a coinage of E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N.Y., from tele-, as in telegraph + -gram, and introduced in the Albany "Evening Journal" of April 6, 1852. Damned in the cradle by purists who pointed out that the correct formation would be telegrapheme (which is close to the Modern Greek word).
May I suggest to such as are not contented with 'Telegraphic Dispatch' the rightly constructed word 'telegrapheme'? I do not want it, but ... I protest against such a barbarism as 'telegram.' [Richard Shilleto, Cambridge Greek scholar, in the London "Times," Oct. 15, 1857]
Related: Telegrammic.
中文解释
1、tele- "far" + gram- "graph-".2、字面含义为：that which writes at a distance.
实用例句
1. "I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?"
“我想发份电报。”——“好的，发给谁？”
来自柯林斯例句
2. A few days earlier he had received a telegram from Lord Lloyd.
几天前，他收到劳埃德勋爵发来的一封电报。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The victory inspired him to dispatch a gleeful telegram to Roosevelt.
