destination board
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A board attached to the side of a railway carriage which indicates where the train is going to. More modern variants can be a dot-matrix display panel.
noun
A departure board or indicator at a railway station.
Example Sentences
- "At Kingsbridge, the bilingualism of the Irish Republic was evident in the tickets, the station notices, and the neat destination boards on the 10.40 a.m. express to Cork."
- "[...] why not show in the train columns and notes the four-character code numbers, which are so useful, amongst other purposes, in helping the passenger identify his train at stations, now that fewer coaches bear destination boards?"