Preposition: of

• congratulation: Hughie himself even sent me a telegram of congratulations.

• condolence: We had hundreds of telegrams of condolences and the funeral took place on Thursday.

Converse of object

• intercept: They had intercepted telegrams sent by Janssen, claiming to be about cigars.

• send: George: I send a telegram to my mother?

• receive: There in September 1920, he received a telegram from the White Army calling him to the Crimea.

• read: His mother, at least, was spared the pain of reading the official war office telegram.

• exchange: The SERCOS-III controller is able to exchange these telegrams with superordinate devices in the network.

• write: Then he wrote a long telegram upon a cable form.

Adjective modifier

• congratulatory: A few days later, the Colonel received a congratulatory telegram from the divisional commander.

• urgent: His parents received an urgent telegram at their home now at Wilford, Clifton Road, Heaton Moor.

• secret: These documents include: - a. A secret telegram from the Governor of the 3rd.

• official: His mother, at least, was spared the pain of reading the official war office telegram.

• long: Then he wrote a long telegram upon a cable form.

• second: The second telegram is in reply to a discouraging message about convoys.

Modifies a noun

• boy: He had just been given a job as a telegram boy, the headmaster told us he would be a future Post Master General.

• service: The British Post Office abolished its telegram service several years ago.

• message: He quit his job at The Sunday Times with the telegram message: " Have gone to Patagonia " .

• home: The first thing I did was to send a telegram home to say I had arrived safely back in Liverpool.

Noun used with modifier

• draft: Rather washing dirty linen in public. ' Wed Jun 20 Discussion on the PM's draft telegram which has not yet gone off.

• radio: Telegram, telegraph, cablegram, radio telegram: evocative names which signal significant news for the recipient.