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pasteboard

pasteboard noun: card stock.

Noun

pasteboard (countable and uncountable, plural pasteboards)

  1. (uncountable, usually) Card stock.
    • All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
    • He handed Larry two slips of pasteboard, theater tickets, as was evident at first glance.1912, Howard Roger Garis, Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy
  2. (countable) A widget allowing multiple users to paste and share text or other items.
  3. (obsolete, slang) A person's visiting card.
    • “We shall only have to leave our pasteboards, Arthur.” He used the word ‘pasteboards,’ having heard it from some of the ingenuous youth of the nobility about town, and as a modern phrase suited to Pen’s tender years.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
    • […] he no sooner learnt that the British officer in command had sent in his pasteboard, than he instantly returned the visit […]1860, William Johnson Neale, Paul Periwinkle: Or, The Pressgang, page 18

Adjective

pasteboard (not comparable)

  1. (figuratively) unsubstantial; flimsy
    • A poor, pasteboard story. The conventional, unattractive heroine is recovering from an illness in Rome. She is discontented and sorry for herself because her planned career as a sports mistress has now to be abandoned.1955, The Junior Bookshelf, volume 19, page 241

pasteboard meaning in Tamil

pasteboard in Tamil

பசைத்தட்டு, பசைப்பலகை

Forms of pasteboard

pluralpasteboards

Origin of pasteboard

From paste + board.

Words formed from pasteboard

Questions about pasteboard

What does pasteboard mean?
Pasteboard means card stock.
What is pasteboard in Tamil?
Pasteboard in Tamil is பசைத்தட்டு, பசைப்பலகை. See Pasteboard meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pasteboard?
Pasteboard can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of pasteboard?
The plural of pasteboard is pasteboards.

Words near pasteboard in the dictionary

  1. paste-ups
  2. paste-wash
  3. pasteable
  4. pastebin
  5. pastebins
  6. pasteboard
  7. pasteboards
  8. pasteboardy
  9. pasted
  10. pasted up
  11. pastedown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pasteboard (page history and authors); pasteboard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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