billboard en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈbɪlˌboɹd/ (US)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From bill + board.
Meanings
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A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71: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.
1971, Don DeLillo, Americana, Penguin, published 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111:The land refuses to change. The more he drives the more the region resembles the country around Mt. Judge. The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy.
1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31:He could see it like a printed sentence, fullborn and already dead God loves me too like the faded and weathered letters on last year's billboard God loves me too
1932, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 98:
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(dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]
1902, “The Casual Club”, in The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902:Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name “Camille.”
1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 308:Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
- 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.
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An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.
[…] the opening billboard identifying Chase as the sponsor […]
1981, Broadcasting, volume 100, page 22:The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.
1975, Television/Radio Age, volume 22, page 52:
- A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is viewed from.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| billboards | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
antibillboard · human billboard · billboardless · Billboardese · billboarding · billboarded · billboard antenna · mobile billboard · billboardesque · billboardlike
Descendants
Translations (77)
tr ilan tabelası (large advertisement along side of highway) · ar لَوْحَة (large advertisement along side of highway) · da reklametavle (large advertisement along side of highway) · ar لَوْحَة إِشْهَارِيَّة (large advertisement along side of highway) · be рэкла́мны шчыт (large advertisement along side of highway) · de Plakatwand (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu fényújság (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu reklámtábla (large advertisement along side of highway) · be рэкля́мны шчыт (large advertisement along side of highway) · pl billboard (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu plakát (large advertisement along side of highway) · ar لَوْحَة إِعْلَانَات (large advertisement along side of highway) · tr reklam tabelası (large advertisement along side of highway) · ja ビルボード (large advertisement along side of highway) · sv anslagstavla (panel or fence, on which bills are posted) · fr panneau d'affichage (large advertisement along side of highway) · ru афи́ша (large advertisement along side of highway) · es mupi grande (large advertisement along side of highway) · de Reklametafel (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu gigantposzter (large advertisement along side of highway) · da plakattavle (large advertisement along side of highway) · id baliho (large advertisement along side of highway) · mi papapānui (large advertisement along side of highway) · ja 広告板 (large advertisement along side of highway) · fi mainostaulu (large advertisement along side of highway) · yo pátákó-ìpolówó-ọ̀jà (large advertisement along side of highway) · es espectacular (large advertisement along side of highway) · th ที่ประกาศ (large advertisement along side of highway) · pl baner (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu (noticeboard etc.) hirdetőtábla (large advertisement along side of highway) · ru щит (large advertisement along side of highway) · it cartellone (large advertisement along side of highway) · ko 간판 (large advertisement along side of highway) · ar يَافِطَة (large advertisement along side of highway) · nl reclamebord (large advertisement along side of highway) · nv óʼoolkąąh bee dah naʼaztą́ (large advertisement along side of highway) · ja 看板 (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu poszter (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu óriásplakát (large advertisement along side of highway) · cs billboard (bilbord) (large advertisement along side of highway) · mn зарын самбар (large advertisement along side of highway) · bg билбо́рд (large advertisement along side of highway) · ru вы́веска (large advertisement along side of highway) · tr reklam panosu (large advertisement along side of highway) · ar لَافِتَة (large advertisement along side of highway) · es cartelera (large advertisement along side of highway) · ar أَفِيش (large advertisement along side of highway) · th ป้ายโฆษณา (large advertisement along side of highway) · cmn 廣告牌 /广告牌 (large advertisement along side of highway) · de Werbeplakat (large advertisement along side of highway) · ko 빌보드 (large advertisement along side of highway) · uk білбо́рд (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu óriásposzter (large advertisement along side of highway) · hu villanyújság (large advertisement along side of highway) · cmn 看板 (large advertisement along side of highway) · es publicidad exterior (large advertisement along side of highway) · de Werbetafel (large advertisement along side of highway) · pl banner (large advertisement along side of highway) · uk рекла́мний щит (large advertisement along side of highway) · ru рекла́мный щит (large advertisement along side of highway) · be білбо́рд (large advertisement along side of highway) · fi tienvarsimainos (large advertisement along side of highway) · ru плака́т (large advertisement along side of highway) · tl billboard (large advertisement along side of highway) · ar لَوْحَة إعْلَانِيَّة (large advertisement along side of highway) · es panel publicitario (large advertisement along side of highway) · tl kartelera (large advertisement along side of highway) · ms papan iklan (large advertisement along side of highway) · tr ilan panosu (large advertisement along side of highway) · fa بیلبورد (large advertisement along side of highway) · de Anschlagtafel (panel or fence, on which bills are posted) · pt outdoor (large advertisement along side of highway) · ru билбо́рд (large advertisement along side of highway) · eo reklampanelo (large advertisement along side of highway) · ko 광고판 (large advertisement along side of highway) · es valla publicitaria (large advertisement along side of highway) · de Anschlagbrett (panel or fence, on which bills are posted)