television receiver

Questions about television receiver

What does television receiver mean?

television receiver means "an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen".

What is another word for television receiver?

Close synonyms include television, television set, tv, tv set, idiot box. 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 receiver a common word?

television receiver 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.