billboard
/ˈbɪlˌboɹd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.87 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
name
The music charts published by Billboard magazine.
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "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."
- "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."
- "Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes."
- "When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]"
- "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.”"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɪlˌboɹd/