signage
/ˈsaɪnɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Signs, particularly those imparting commercial, directional, or road traffic information, taken collectively.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The signage at the airport is designed to point the way clearly to important locations."
- "Uniformity must be paramount in all signage and markings and is the only sound basis from which the job of traffic control can be started on any highway system."
- "Early involvement with a signage designer can often assist the architect and the owner to identify problems in directional or informational signage that may not have been considered."
- "Perhaps no aspect of library design is as vital to the success of library users as is effective signage, and certainly few other aspects are as perplexing for library planners. [...] Librarians often cannot rely on architects and interior designers to plan effective signage and must address this feature of library building design on their own."
- "If you try to push more and more traffic on to limited numbers of roads you require more signage, more safety measures, bus lanes, cycle lanes and so on."
- "[I]t is critical for today's advertisers to realize how different digital signage is today from traditional advertising, be it the difference between static signage and digital content on digital screens, on one hand, or the difference between a traditional broadcast TV ad and a digital signage ad, on the other."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsaɪnɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈsaɪnɪd͡ʒ/