bulletin board
bulletin board noun: a board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space. Also the ellipsis of bulletin board system.

Noun
bulletin board (plural bulletin boards)
- A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.
- Somewhere near Fillmore she found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 90
- It should come as no surprise to see promotional material and bulletin boards in the department’s languages, though English is also present in the signage of this microcosm of the institution.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5
- Synonyms:
- notice board, pinboard
Also used as
bulletin board is also the ellipsis of bulletin board system.
bulletin board meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Tagalog
bulletin board in Hindi
- a board
- बुलेटिन बोर्ड buleṭin borḍ, नोटिस बोर्ड noṭis borḍ
bulletin board in Urdu
- a board
- بُلِٹِن بورْڈ buliṭin borḍ, نوٹِس بورْڈ noṭis borḍ
bulletin board in Bengali
- a board
- বুলেটিন বোর্ড buleṭin bōrḍo, নোটিশ বোর্ড nōṭiś bōrḍo
bulletin board in Tagalog
- a board
- paskilan
More languagesFewer languages
- bulletin board in Arabic
- لَوْحَة إِعْلَانَات lawḥat ʔiʕlānāt
- bulletin board in Malay
- papan kenyataan
- bulletin board in Indonesian
- papan pengumuman
- bulletin board in Thai
- กระดานข่าว grà-daan-kàao
- bulletin board in Vietnamese
- bảng công báo, bảng tin
Synonyms of bulletin board
Forms of bulletin board
| plural | bulletin boards |
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Origin of bulletin board
From bulletin + board.
Words formed from bulletin board
Questions about bulletin board
- What does bulletin board mean?
- Bulletin board means a board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.
- What is bulletin board in Hindi?
- Bulletin board in Hindi is बुलेटिन बोर्ड (buleṭin borḍ), नोटिस बोर्ड (noṭis borḍ). See Bulletin board meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bulletin board?
- Bulletin board is a noun.
- What is the plural of bulletin board?
- The plural of bulletin board is bulletin boards.
Words near bulletin board in the dictionary
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