an electronic device with a screen that receives broadcast or streamed signals so you can watch moving pictures and hear sound.
After dinner, the family gathered around the television to watch a movie.
He accidentally dropped the remote and turned the television off.
✦ Formed in the early 1900s from Greek tele- “far” + Latin visio “sight,” literally meaning “seeing from a distance.”
the system or activity of transmitting moving pictures and sound, or the programmes that are broadcast by this system.
Live television showed the rocket launch to millions of viewers.
She prefers reading books to watching television.
