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letterboards

letterboards is the plural of letterboard.

Meaning of letterboard

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.

Questions about letterboards

What is letterboards the plural of?
Letterboards is the plural of letterboard.

Words near letterboards in the dictionary

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

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