billboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
radio
sciences
television
transport
Etymology: From bill + board.
Compound parts: bill
board
Inflected forms:
form: billboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: billboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: billboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: billboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: billboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
pos: noun
examples: He could see it like a printed sentence, fullborn and already dead God loves me too like the faded and weathered letters on last year's billboard God loves me too
The land refuses to change. The more he drives the more the region resembles the country around Mt. Judge. The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy.
All America was on the verge of spring and the countryside was coming to glory, what we could see of the countryside through the smoke and billboards.
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
gloss: A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]
Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name “Camille.”
Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
gloss: A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore-channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.
pos: noun
gloss: An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.
pos: noun
examples: The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.
[…] the opening billboard identifying Chase as the sponsor […]
gloss: A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is viewed from.
pos: noun
gloss: To advertise on a billboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The upcoming concert was billboarded all over the city.
Derived words: antibillboard
billboard antenna
billboarded
Billboardese
billboardesque
billboarding
billboardless
billboardlike
human billboard
mobile billboard
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَفِيش
roman: ʔafīš
lang: Arabic
word: لَوْحَة
roman: lawḥa
lang: Arabic
word: لَافِتَة
roman: lāfita
lang: Arabic
word: يَافِطَة
roman: yāfiṭa
lang: Arabic
word: لَوْحَة إعْلَانِيَّة
roman: lawḥa ʔiʕlāniyya
lang: Arabic
word: لَوْحَة إِعْلَانَات
roman: lawḥat ʔiʕlānāt
lang: Arabic
word: لَوْحَة إِشْهَارِيَّة
roman: lawḥa ʔiʕšhāriyya
lang: Belarusian
word: рэкла́мны шчыт
roman: reklámny ščyt
lang: Belarusian
word: рэкля́мны шчыт
roman: rekljámny ščyt
lang: Belarusian
word: білбо́рд
roman: bilbórd
lang: Bulgarian
word: билбо́рд
roman: bilbórd
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 看板
roman: kànbǎn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 廣告牌 /广告牌
roman: guǎnggàopái
lang: Czech
word: billboard (bilbord)
lang: Danish
word: reklametavle
lang: Danish
word: plakattavle
lang: Dutch
word: reclamebord
lang: Esperanto
word: reklampanelo
lang: Finnish
word: mainostaulu
lang: Finnish
word: tienvarsimainos
lang: French
word: panneau d'affichage
lang: German
word: Plakatwand
lang: German
word: Werbetafel
lang: German
word: Reklametafel
lang: German
word: Werbeplakat
lang: Hungarian
word: (noticeboard etc.) hirdetőtábla
lang: Hungarian
word: reklámtábla
lang: Hungarian
word: plakát
lang: Hungarian
word: poszter
lang: Hungarian
word: óriásplakát
lang: Hungarian
word: óriásposzter
lang: Hungarian
word: gigantposzter
lang: Hungarian
word: villanyújság
lang: Hungarian
word: fényújság
lang: Indonesian
word: baliho
lang: Italian
word: cartellone
lang: Japanese
word: 看板
roman: kanban
lang: Japanese
word: ビルボード
roman: birubōdo
lang: Japanese
word: 広告板
roman: kōkokuban
lang: Korean
word: 간판
roman: ganpan
lang: Korean
word: 빌보드
roman: bilbodeu
lang: Korean
word: 광고판
roman: gwanggopan
lang: Malay
word: papan iklan
lang: Māori
word: papapānui
lang: Mongolian
word: зарын самбар
roman: zaryn sambar
lang: Navajo
word: óʼoolkąąh bee dah naʼaztą́
lang: Persian
word: بیلبورد
roman: bilbord
lang: Polish
word: billboard
lang: Polish
word: baner
lang: Polish
word: banner
lang: Portuguese
word: outdoor
lang: Russian
word: афи́ша
roman: afíša
lang: Russian
word: плака́т
roman: plakát
lang: Russian
word: рекла́мный щит
roman: reklámnyj ščit
lang: Russian
word: щит
roman: ščit
lang: Russian
word: билбо́рд
roman: bilbórd
lang: Russian
word: вы́веска
roman: výveska
lang: Spanish
word: cartelera
lang: Spanish
word: valla publicitaria
lang: Spanish
word: espectacular
lang: Spanish
word: publicidad exterior
lang: Spanish
word: panel publicitario
lang: Tagalog
word: billboard
lang: Tagalog
word: kartelera
lang: Thai
word: ป้ายโฆษณา
roman: bpâai-kôot-sà-naa
lang: Thai
word: ที่ประกาศ
roman: tîi-bprà-gàat
lang: Turkish
word: ilan panosu
lang: Turkish
word: ilan tabelası
lang: Turkish
word: reklam panosu
lang: Turkish
word: reklam tabelası
lang: Ukrainian
word: білбо́рд
roman: bilbórd
lang: Ukrainian
word: рекла́мний щит
roman: reklámnyj ščyt
lang: Yoruba
word: pátákó-ìpolówó-ọ̀jà