telegraphist
- a word derived from telegraph.
Example Sentences
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After divorcing her husband, she was posted to RAF Gibraltar where she worked as a telegraphist, a job which saw her work with morse code and given high level security clearance.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Medals awarded to telegraphist Harold Cottam, who helped save 700 passengers on the Titanic, were also sold at the auction in Wiltshire on Saturday.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2023
Among them was Ron Harris, 85, from Manchester, a telegraphist on board HMS Offa who was the first on the ship to learn that victory had been declared in Europe.
From BBC ● May 8, 2010
One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help.
From Time Magazine Archive
Penn thinks that’s exactly why she told them she was a w/op—they call it W/T in SOE, wireless telegraphist: so she could give them code.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
