"singing telegram" meaning in English

See singing telegram in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: singing telegrams [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} singing telegram (plural singing telegrams)
  1. A message sent like a telegram, but delivered to the recipient by a performer who sings the message.
    Sense id: en-singing_telegram-en-noun-Oc2clAuA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39
  2. The performer who sings such a message.
    Sense id: en-singing_telegram-en-noun-DzJ6x9BX

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for singing telegram meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "singing telegrams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "singing telegram (plural singing telegrams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A message sent like a telegram, but delivered to the recipient by a performer who sings the message."
      ],
      "id": "en-singing_telegram-en-noun-Oc2clAuA",
      "links": [
        [
          "message",
          "message"
        ],
        [
          "telegram",
          "telegram"
        ],
        [
          "performer",
          "performer"
        ],
        [
          "sing",
          "sing"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Sandra Gurvis, The Off-the-Beaten-Path Job Book",
          "text": "As a singing telegram, you may not know what's really going on until you get to your destination and the recipient slams the door in your face or bursts into tears.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The performer who sings such a message."
      ],
      "id": "en-singing_telegram-en-noun-DzJ6x9BX"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "singing telegram"
  ],
  "word": "singing telegram"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "singing telegrams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "singing telegram (plural singing telegrams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A message sent like a telegram, but delivered to the recipient by a performer who sings the message."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "message",
          "message"
        ],
        [
          "telegram",
          "telegram"
        ],
        [
          "performer",
          "performer"
        ],
        [
          "sing",
          "sing"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Sandra Gurvis, The Off-the-Beaten-Path Job Book",
          "text": "As a singing telegram, you may not know what's really going on until you get to your destination and the recipient slams the door in your face or bursts into tears.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The performer who sings such a message."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "singing telegram"
  ],
  "word": "singing telegram"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.