televisions

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of television.

   Modern televisions are far thinner and lighter than the boxy models of the 1990s.

   The hotel installed flat-screen televisions in every room.

   Note

   A plural that only one meaning of the noun really takes: the set itself, the screen-and-speaker device in the living room or hotel room. The medium, the programs it carries and the dated sense of vision at a distance are all uncountable, so you watch television but buy televisions. When you need to count the broadcasts themselves, say programs or shows instead.

2. 2
   verbcolloquial

   Third-person singular simple present of television.

   Note

   The noun turned verb is informal and recent, and its plain meaning is simply to watch television. This form shares its spelling with the plural noun, so context alone tells the two apart. Because the verb is so new and casual, formal writing is safer with "watches television" or "watches TV," which no reader will stumble over.

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