blackboard

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Etymology

From black + board, because such surfaces were once typically made of black slate.

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Noun

blackboard (plural blackboards)

Physicist Paul Dirac at the blackboard.

1. A large flat surface, finished with black slate or a similar material, that can be written upon with chalk and subsequently erased; a chalkboard

Related terms

• chalkboard
• whiteboard

Translations

a surface that can be written upon with chalk

Arabic: سبورة (sabūra) f., لوح (lawḥ) m. Basque: arbela (eu) Breton: taolenn f., -où pl. Bulgarian: черна дъска (bg) f. Catalan: pissarra (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 黑板 (cmn) (hēibǎn) Min-Nan: 烏板, 乌板 (o·-pán) Czech: tabule (cs) f. Danish: tavle (da) c. Dutch: schoolbord (nl) n., bord (nl) n. Finnish: liitutaulu (fi) French: tableau noir m., ardoise (fr) f. German: Tafel (de) f. Hebrew: לוח (luakh) m. Hungarian: iskolai tábla (hu)

Italian: lavagna (it) f. Japanese: 黒板 (こくばん, kokuban) Korean: 칠판 (ko) (chilpan) Lao: ກະດານ (kadaan) Macedonian: табла (mk) (tábla) f. Maltese: blekbord, lavanja Norwegian: tavle (no) m. and f. Polish: tablica (pl) f. Portuguese: lousa (pt) f., quadro negro (pt) m. Romanian: tablă f. Russian: классная доска (klássnaja doská) f., доска (doská) f. Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-dubh (gd) m. Spanish: pizarra f., encerado m. (Spain), pizarrón m. (Latin America), tablero m. (Colombia) Swedish: svart tavla (sv) c., skrivtavla (sv) c. Thai: กระดานดำ (gràdaandam)

Verb

blackboard (third-person singular simple present blackboards, present participle blackboarding, simple past and past participle blackboarded)

1. To use a blackboard to assist in an informal discussion.