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Telegram

proper nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

An encrypted, cloud-based instant messaging service.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An encrypted, cloud-based instant messaging service.

    Following his arrest, Telegram said Durov had “nothing to hide” and that it was “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”

Etymology

From telegram.

noun

  1. 1

    A Telegram channel.

    Does anyone have the Telegram link?

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo send a message using the Telegram instant messaging service.

Forms

plural
Telegrams
past tense
Telegrammed
past participle
Telegrammed
present participle
Telegramming
third person singular
Telegrams
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).