teletext

[tel-i-tekst]

noun

Television.

1. a system that allows viewers having television sets with special decoders to receive signals that display printed information as well as graphics on their screens.

Teletext

¹

/ ˈtɛlɪˌtɛkst /

noun

1. (in Britain, formerly) the ITV teletext service See Ceefax

teletext

²

/ ˈtɛlɪˌtɛkst /

noun

1. a form of Videotex in which information is broadcast by a television station and received on an adapted television set

Word History and Origins

Origin of Teletext¹

tele- ¹ + text

Example Sentences

He doubted it would attract any newspaper coverage but hoped his win would garner attention "online and on Teletext".

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Pryor was also one of the paper’s first journalists to produce work through an early form of digital journalism called teletext, said Joe Saltzman, a longtime friend and a USC journalism professor.

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"I lived in Uganda for the first five years of my life and my brothers made me pick a football team from Teletext," he explained.

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The best way to follow scores on a Saturday was by firing up Ceefax or Teletext on your TV.

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Teletext Holidays faces legal action unless it pays back £7m to customers whose holidays were cancelled owing to the pandemic, the Competition and Markets Authority has said.

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