telegraph pole

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   tall pole supporting telephone wires

   Synonymstelephone poletelegraph post

   Broaderpost

Questions about telegraph pole

What does telegraph pole mean?

telegraph pole means "tall pole supporting telephone wires".

What is another word for telegraph pole?

Close synonyms include telephone pole, telegraph post. 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 telegraph pole a common word?

telegraph pole 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.