television

Other forms of television

plural

televisions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about television

What does television mean?

television means "broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in television?

television has 4 syllables: tel-e-vis-ion. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/.

What is another word for television?

Close synonyms include telecasting, TV, video, television system, television receiver. 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 television a common word?

television is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with television?

7 words rhyme with television. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.