telescreen

telescreen

English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ screen, from television. Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.

Noun

telescreen (plural telescreens)

1. (science fiction) A screen for broadcasting television or similar media.
   • 1973, Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, The failure of success: ecological values vs. economic myths

     Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance.

   • 2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:

     She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.

Translations

screen for broadcasting

Catalan: telepantalla f Finnish: kaukovarjostin (fi) (in "1984") French: télécran (fr) m Portuguese: teletela f Turkish: teleekran

See also

• videoscreen
• vidscreen