Billboard

Quick meaning: Billboard is a noun meaning A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.

Meaning

A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.

More Meanings

1. (television, radio) An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.
2. (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is viewed from.
3. (transitive) To advertise on a billboard.
4. (nautical) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore-channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.
5. (dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.

Example Sentences

The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.

When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

All America was on the verge of spring and the countryside was coming to glory, what we could see of the countryside through the smoke and billboards.

Word Forms

• billboards
• billboarding
• billboarded

Synonyms for billboard

Depending on context, synonyms include hoarding.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hoarding, signboard, poster, advertisement, advertising, sign.

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