noun
Meaning 1
A wireless message.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
aerogram
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noun
Meaning 2
A telegram whose transmission included at least one segment sent via airplane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, rare
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter and serving as its own envelope for transit via airmail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A pneumogram.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: airgram
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a letter sent by air mail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: airmail letter, air letter, aerogramme
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: letter, missive
History
Etymology
From aero- + -gram.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: aerogram — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Finnish: ilmakirje — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- French: aérogramme — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Indonesian: aerogram — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Japanese: 航空書簡 (kōkū shōkan) — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Korean: 항공서간 (hanggongseogan) — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Polish: aerogram — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Portuguese: aerograma — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Russian: аэрогра́мма (aerográmma) — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Spanish: aerograma — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Tagalog: aerograma — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Thai: จดหมายอากาศ — foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter
- Russian: радиогра́мма (radiográmma) — wireless message
- Japanese: 航空書簡 (kōkūshokan) — translations to be specified
Real reading context