billboard

billboard

See also: Billboard

English

Etymology

From bill +‎ board.

Noun

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 644581344; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, OCLC 154633965, 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

   • 1971, Don DeLillo, Americana, Penguin, 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, p. 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,” 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.

Derived terms

• antibillboard
• billboarded
• billboardesque
• billboarding
• billboardless
• billboardlike

 

Compound words and expressions

• billboard antenna

 

Descendants

• → Polish: billboard

Translations

large advertisement along side of highway

Arabic: أَفِيش‎ m (ʾafīš), لَوْحَة‎ f (lawḥa), لَافِتَة‎‎ f (lāfita), يَافِطَة‎‎ f (yāfiṭa), لَوْحَة إعْلَانِيَّة‎ f (lawḥa ʾiʿlāniyya), لَوْحَة إِعْلَانَات‎ f (lawḥat ʾiʿlānāt), لَوْحَة إِشْهَارِيَّة‎ f (lawḥa ʾiʿšhāriyya) Belarusian: рэкла́мны шчыт m (reklámny ščyt), рэкля́мны шчыт m (rekljámny ščyt), білбо́рд m (bilbórd) Bulgarian: билбо́рд m (bilbórd) Chinese: Mandarin: 看板 (zh) (kànbǎn), 廣告牌／广告牌 (zh) (guǎnggàopái) Czech: billboard (cs) (bilbord) Dutch: reclamebord (nl) n Esperanto: reklampanelo Finnish: mainostaulu (fi), tienvarsimainos French: panneau d'affichage m German: Billboard n, Plakat (de) n Hungarian: (noticeboard etc.) hirdetőtábla (hu), reklámtábla (hu), (poster) plakát (hu), poszter, óriásplakát, óriásposzter, gigantposzter, (electronic) villanyújság (hu), fényújság Indonesian: baliho (id) Italian: cartellone (it) m Japanese: 看板 (ja) (かんばん, kanban), ビルボード (birubōdo), 広告板 (こうこくばん, kōkokuban) Korean: 간판(看板) (ko) (ganpan), 빌보드 (bilbodeu) Lao: please add this translation if you can Maori: papapānui Malay: papan iklan Mongolian: Cyrillic: зарын самбар (zaryn sambar) Navajo: óʼoolkąąh bee dah naʼaztą́ Persian: بیلبورد‎ (bilbord) Polish: billboard (pl) m, baner (pl) m, banner (pl) m Portuguese: outdoor (pt) m Russian: афи́ша (ru) f (afíša), плака́т (ru) m (plakát), рекла́мный щит (ru) m (reklámnyj ščit), щит (ru) m (ščit), билбо́рд (ru) m (bilbórd), вы́веска (ru) f (výveska) Spanish: cartelera f, valla publicitaria f, espectacular (es) m (Mexico), publicidad exterior f (technical) Swedish: ankardyna c Tagalog: billboard, kartelera Thai: ป้ายโฆษณา (bpâai-kôot-sà-naa), ที่ประกาศ (tîi-bprà-gàat) Turkish: ilan panosu (tr), ilan tabelası, reklam panosu, reklam tabelası Ukrainian: білбо́рд m (bilbórd), рекла́мний щит m (reklámnyj ščyt)

References

1. Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, Boston: Little and Brown, 1841, p. 290, “BILL-BOARDS.”

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• broadbill

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Polish

Alternative forms

• bilbord

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbil.bɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ilbɔrt
• Syllabification: bill‧board

Noun

billboard m inan

1. billboard (large advertisement along side of highway)

   billboard/bilbord reklamowy ― advertisement billboard

   postawić billboard/bilbord ― to put up a billboard

Declension

Declension of billboard

	singular	plural
nominative	billboard	billboardy
genitive	billboardu	billboardów
dative	billboardowi	billboardom
accusative	billboard	billboardy
instrumental	billboardem	billboardami
locative	billboardzie	billboardach
vocative	billboardzie	billboardy

Further reading

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

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Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bill‧board
• IPA^(key): /ˈbilboɾd/, [ˈbil.boɾd]

Noun

billboard

1. billboard

   Synonym: kartelera

Further reading

• “billboard”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018