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guideboard

guideboard noun: a board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.

Noun

guideboard (plural guideboards)

  1. A board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.
    • they cannot go astray so long as they carry their guideboard about with them - a delusion we often practise upon ourselves with our high and mighty reason1871, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows

Forms of guideboard

pluralguideboards

Origin of guideboard

From guide + board.

Questions about guideboard

What does guideboard mean?
Guideboard means a board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.
What part of speech is guideboard?
Guideboard is a noun.
What is the plural of guideboard?
The plural of guideboard is guideboards.

Words near guideboard in the dictionary

  1. guide star
  2. guide stars
  3. guide word
  4. guide words
  5. guide-post
  6. guideboard
  7. guideboards
  8. guidebook
  9. guidebookish
  10. guidebooks
  11. guidecraft

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