cable television

1. 1.

   television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

   Synonymscable

   Broadertelevision
2. 2.

   a television system that transmits over cables

   Synonymscablecable systemcable television service

   Broadertelevision

   Partscable

Questions about cable television

What does cable television mean?

cable television means "television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cable television?

Close synonyms include cable, cable, cable system, cable television service. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cable television a common word?

cable television is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.