billboard
US/ˈbɪlˌboɹd/
billboard noun: a very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
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Noun
billboard (plural billboards)
- A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
- 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 too1932, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 98
- 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.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31
- A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
- When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]1902, “The Casual Club”, in The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902
- 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.”1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 308
- 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.
- An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.
- The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.1975, Television/Radio Age, volume 22, page 52
- […] the opening billboard identifying Chase as the sponsor […]1981, Broadcasting, volume 100, page 22
- A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is viewed from.
Verb
billboard (third-person singular simple present billboards, present participle billboarding, simple past and past participle billboarded)
- To advertise on a billboard.
- The upcoming concert was billboarded all over the city.
Proper noun capitalized: Billboard
Billboard
- The music charts published by Billboard magazine.
- He has charted on Billboard and several international DJ and Dance charts.2012, "Yogi Chill From Soulfood Music And DJ Free On Sale Digitally". Alt.emusic.
- This song was originally on Victor 25411 and charted on Billboard at #20 on 10/24/36.2009, "Looking For Benny Goodman Quartet - St. Louis Blues 1936". alt.music.big-band.
billboard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
billboard in Hindi
- बिलबोर्ड
billboard in Tamil
- விளம்பரப்பலகை
billboard in Marathi
- बिलबोर्ड
billboard in Urdu
- بل بورڈ
More languagesFewer languages
- billboard in Bengali
- বিজ্ঞাপনফলক
- billboard in Telugu
- బిల్బోర్డ్, బిల్బోర్డు
- billboard in Kannada
- ಬಿಲ್ಬೋರ್ಡ್
- billboard in Punjabi
- ਬਿਲਬੋਰਡ, ਬਿੱਲਬੋਰਡ
- billboard in Gujarati
- બિલબોર્ડ
- billboard in Odia
- ବିଲବୋର୍ଡ, ବିଲବୋର୍ଡ଼, ବିଲ୍ବୋର୍ଡ
- billboard in Nepali
- बिलबोर्ड
- billboard in Tagalog
- billboard, kartelera
- billboard in Arabic
- أَفِيش ʔafīš, لَوْحَة lawḥa, لَافِتَة lāfita, يَافِطَة yāfiṭa
- billboard in Malay
- papan iklan
- billboard in Indonesian
- baliho
- billboard in Persian
- بیلبورد bilbord
- billboard in Thai
- ป้ายโฆษณา bpâai-kôot-sà-naa, ที่ประกาศ tîi-bprà-gàat
Examples of billboard in a sentence
- 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.1971, Don DeLillo, Americana, Penguin, published 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111:
- Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71:
- 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.1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
Forms of billboard
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | billboards |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | billboards |
| present participle | billboarding |
| past participle | billboarded |
| past | billboarded |
Origin of billboard
From bill + board.
Words formed from billboard
Phrases with billboard
Questions about billboard
- What does billboard mean?
- Billboard means a very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
- What is billboard in Hindi?
- Billboard in Hindi is बिलबोर्ड. See Billboard meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use billboard in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is billboard?
- Billboard can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce billboard?
- Billboard is pronounced /ˈbɪlˌboɹd/ (US).
- What is the plural of billboard?
- The plural of billboard is billboards.
Words near billboard in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: billboard (page history and authors); Billboard (page history and authors); billboard (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); billboard (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); billboard (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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