billboard

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Etymology

bill +‎ board

Noun

billboard (plural billboards)

1. A very large advertisement along the side of a highway.
2. (dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
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.

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4. (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it's looked at from.

Derived terms

• billboarded
• billboarding

Translations

a large advertising sign

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 看板 (cmn) (kànbǎn), 廣告牌 (cmn), 广告牌 (cmn) (guǎnggàopái)

• Esperanto: reklampanelo (eo)
• Finnish: mainostaulu (fi), tienvarsimainos (fi)
• French: panneau d'affichage (fr) m
• German: Billboard (de) n, Plakat (de) n
• Indonesian: baliho (id)
• Italian: cartellone (it) m
• Japanese: 看板 (ja) (かんばん, kanban), ビルボード (ja) (birubōdo), 広告板 (ja) (こうこくばん, kōkokuban)

• Korean: 간판 (ko) (ganpan) (看板 (ko))
• Russian: афиша (ru) (afíša) f , плакат (ru) (plakát) m , рекламный щит (ru) (reklámnyj ščit) m , щит (ru) (ščit) m , билборд (ru) (bilbórd) m 
• Spanish: cartelera (es) f
• Swedish: ankardyna (sv) c
• Turkish: ilan panosu (tr), ilan tabelası (tr), reklam panosu (tr), reklam tabelası (tr)

Anagrams

• broadbill