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nameboard

nameboard noun: a signboard bearing a name.

Noun

nameboard (plural nameboards)

  1. A signboard bearing a name.
    • The former Metropolitan station was situated about five minutes' walk from the main street, and was always designated Uxbridge (Belmont Road) by Bradshaw, although there was no official sanction for this name; nothing of the sort ever appeared either on the station nameboards or the Metropolitan...1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150
    • On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which...1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668

Forms of nameboard

pluralnameboards
alternative formname board

Origin of nameboard

From name + board.

Questions about nameboard

What does nameboard mean?
Nameboard means a signboard bearing a name.
What part of speech is nameboard?
Nameboard is a noun.
What is the plural of nameboard?
The plural of nameboard is nameboards.

Words near nameboard in the dictionary

  1. name-sakes
  2. nameability
  3. nameable
  4. nameableness
  5. nameably
  6. nameboard
  7. nameboards
  8. namebook
  9. namebooks
  10. namecall
  11. namecalled

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