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letterboard

letterboard noun: a signboard for lettering or text.

Noun

letterboard (plural letterboards)

  1. A signboard for lettering or text.
    • So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.1941, Transit Journal: Volume 85
  2. A board marked with letters of the alphabet, used for communication by the disabled.
    • One of the patients, Leonard L., when he heard of L-DOPA, rapped on his letterboard with mixed enthusiasm and irony, 'Dopamine is Resurrectamine. Cotzias is the Chemical Messiah.'1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  3. (historical) A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation.

Forms of letterboard

pluralletterboards

Origin of letterboard

From letter + board.

Questions about letterboard

What does letterboard mean?
Letterboard means a signboard for lettering or text.
What part of speech is letterboard?
Letterboard is a noun.
What is the plural of letterboard?
The plural of letterboard is letterboards.

Words near letterboard in the dictionary

  1. letter-stamps
  2. letter-writer
  3. letter-writers
  4. letteral
  5. letterals
  6. letterboard
  7. letterboards
  8. letterbomb
  9. letterbombs
  10. letterbook
  11. letterbooks

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