English
telescreen
From tele- + screen, from television.
The story
Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.
Today it means
noun A screen for broadcasting television or similar media, especially one that shows propaganda and records or spies on the user.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “telescreen”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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