billboard

From bill +‎ board.

billboard (plural billboards)

1. A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
   • 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:

     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

   • 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31:

     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.

   • 1971, Don DeLillo, Americana‎, Penguin, published 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111:

     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.

   • 1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography‎, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71:

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

2. (dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
   • 1902, “The Casual Club”, in The Onlooker‎, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902:

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

   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 308:

     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.”

   • 1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:

     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.

3. (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.[1]
4. (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is looked at from.

• → Polish: billboard

• billboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• billboard (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• broadbill

• bilbord

Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbil.bɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ilbɔrt
• Syllabification: bill‧board

billboard m inan

1. billboard (large advertisement along side of highway)

   billboard/bilbord reklamowy ― advertisement billboard

   postawić billboard/bilbord ― to put up a billboard

• billboard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• billboard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.

billboard (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜇ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of bilbord