telegraphist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛləɡɹɑːfɪst/, /təˈlɛɡɹɑːfɪst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛləɡɹæfɪst/, /təˈlɛɡɹæfɪst/
Noun[edit]
telegraphist (plural telegraphists)
- A telegrapher or telegraph operator.
- 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
- He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.
- 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:
- But the next stations, Wamphray, and Dinwoodie, were small places, very probably with no night telegraphists.
Further reading[edit]
- “telegraphist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- telegrapher, telegraphist, telegraph operator at Google Ngram Viewer