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telfer

American  
[tel-fer] / ˈtɛl fər /

noun

  1. telpher.


telfer British  
/ ˈtɛlfə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of telpher

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • telferage noun

Example Sentences

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Alloway, a trained actor who worked as a film journalist before moving into directing, was struck with a similar feeling when she first discovered Houghton’s play, right around the time she was consuming copious media about women criminals, such as Tori Telfer’s 2017 book “Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History.”

From Los Angeles Times

Harkins used the fake name Christopher Telfer when speaking to Caitlyn, who had recently split from the father of her two young children.

From BBC

Jim Telfer's words from the epic 1997 tour in South Africa.

From BBC

JPR or Jeremy Guscott's drop-goals, Robert Jones squaring up to Nick Farr-Jones, Sir Ian McGeechan and Jim Telfer's team talk, Matt Dawson's dummy, O'Driscoll's knife-through-butter try, the list goes on.

From BBC

In 1997 Jim Telfer called selection "the easy bit" in his famous speech about reaching the top of Everest.

From BBC