Meaning

7 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Television.

    Not much on telly tonight, as usual!

  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable)A television set.

    We've got a new flat-screen telly.

    Glotze, Fernseher, Flimmerkiste

    те́ликtélik, те́ликtélik, я́щикjáščik

    тєлікtjelik

  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Telegraph.

  4. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Telephone.

  5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Teleport.

  6. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Telecommunication.

  7. (Canada, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, US, colloquial, slang)A hotel or motel.

    I'm staying at the telly this weekend.

More definitions
  • an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen

Examples

102 sentences
  1. The telly's on the blink again.

    Телевізор знову не працює.

    deDer Fernseher hat wieder den Geist aufgegeben.

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  2. Watch some telly if you like.

    Подивись телевізор, якщо хочеш.

    ruХочешь, посмотри телевизор.

    deSieh ruhig fern.

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  3. Tom is watching the telly right now.

    Просто зараз Том дивиться телевізор.

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  4. I forgot to turn off the telly.

    Я забув вимкнути телевізор.

    ruЯ забыл выключить телек.

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  5. "Telly" is short for "television."

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
television set — see also television:
Русский
By meaning 2
television (medium) — see also television:
television set — see also television:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
television set — see also television:

Origin

Shortened form of tele(vision) + -y. Shortened form of (ho)tel and/or (mo)tel + -y.

Shortened form of tele(vision) + -y.

Shortened form of (ho)tel and/or (mo)tel + -y.

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Forms

plural: tellies
Singulartelly
Pluraltellies

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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