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telegram (n.): "telegraphic dispatch," according to Bartlett"s 1859 edition a coinage of E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N.Y., from tele-, as in telegraph + -gram, and introduced in the Albany "Evening Journal" of April 6, 1852. Damned in the cradle by purists who pointed out that the correct formation would be telegrapheme (which is close to the Modern Greek word).
May I suggest to such as are not contented with "Telegraphic Dispatch" the rightly constructed word "telegrapheme"? I do not want it, but ... I protest against such a barbarism as "telegram." [Richard Shilleto, Cambridge Greek scholar, in the London "Times," Oct. 15, 1857]
Related: Telegrammic.

词态变化

复数 telegrams;

2. A few days earlier he had received a telegram from Lord Lloyd.: 几天前，他收到劳埃德勋爵发来的一封电报。

3. The victory inspired him to dispatch a gleeful telegram to Roosevelt.: 胜利促使他给罗斯福发了封喜报。

telegraph

cipher telegram 密电，密码电报

code telegram 密码电报

secret telegram 秘密电报

ordinary telegram 平电

collect telegram 收报人付帐电报指发报人拍发的电报费由电信局向收报人收取的电报。

telegram cable 电报电缆

secrecy of telegram 电报保密

postal telegram 快邮代电

deferred telegram 缓电

repeated telegram 核对电报；校对电报见telegraph collationne.

这些名词都有“电报”之意。
cable通常指通过海底电缆打的电报，也可指广义的电报。
telegram常用词，指通过电报系统发出的信息，尤指具体的一份份电报。
telegraph侧重指通信方式和电报业各，不可数名词，表想象概念。

1、tele- "far" + gram- "graph-".
2、字面含义为：that which writes at a distance.