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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.

bulletin board: a board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space
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Noun

bulletin board (plural bulletin boards)

  1. 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

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

pluralbulletin boards

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

  1. bulletheaded
  2. bulletheads
  3. bullethole
  4. bulletholes
  5. bulletin
  6. bulletin board
  7. bulletin board service
  8. bulletin board services
  9. bulletin board system
  10. bulletin board systems
  11. bulletin boards

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