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ca·ble·gram

 (kā′bəl-grăm′)
n.
A telegram sent by submarine cable.
[cable + (tele)gram.]
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cablegram

(ˈkeɪbəlˌɡræm)
n
(Telecommunications) a more formal name for cable5
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ca•ble•gram

(ˈkeɪ bəlˌgræm)

n.
a telegram sent by underwater cable.
[1865–70, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.cablegram - a telegram sent abroadcablegram - a telegram sent abroad    
cable, overseas telegram
telegram, wire - a message transmitted by telegraph
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Translations

cablegram

[ˈkeɪblgræm] N → cablegrama m
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cablegram

[ˈkeɪblˌgræm] n → cablogramma m
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He would tell them about the cablegram when they were all on board the train.
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'I say the cablegram shall go to-night!' cried Alexander, with energy.
'But there's one thing,' said the latter, 'cablegrams are dear; and I dare say you remember enough of the governor to guess the state of my finances.'
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On his study table--a curious note of modernism where everything seemed to belong to a bygone world--was a cablegram. He tore it open.
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Paul did send a cablegram. In a few minutes, and without the aid of music, the clergyman made them man and wife, and soon the glass shade had fallen that cuts off married couples from the world.
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So quickly was this order filled that on the twelfth day after the arrival of the cablegram, the ships were on their way to Messina with the lumber.
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"Here is a message for you, forwarded from Baltimore; it is a cablegram from Paris."
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When my message has been presented to the person to whom it has been addressed, when my trust is discharged, then and then only shall I send that cablegram. That moment can only arrive at the end of my journey."
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He gave rapid orders on many different matters, asked to have read to him a cablegram he expected from Petersburg, and one from Vienna.
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After the Philippines took the bronze, President Magsaysay sent a cablegram from Manila to applaud the team in Brazil.
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Besant, the supposed brother of Walter Besant, who brought an end to the whole affair by denying, via cablegram, the man's existence (WWWC 8:139).
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