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pretelevision

adj

Etymology

From pre- + television.

  1. borrowed from télévision
  2. prefixed as pretelevision — “pre + television”

Definitions

  1. Before the introduction of television.

    • Almost all of the memorable pretelevision radio programming was provided by one of the major radio networks.
    • Few of these owners had been around in the pretelevision days.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pretelevision. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA