billboard

See also: Billboard

English

Etymology

From bill +‎ board.

Noun

billboard (plural billboards)

1. A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
   • 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 98:

     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

   • 1971, Don DeLillo, Americana‎^[2], Penguin, published 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111:

     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.

   • 1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography‎^[3], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71:

     Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

2. (dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
   • 1902, “The Casual Club,” The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902,^[4]

     When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]

   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia‎^[5], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 308:

     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.”

   • 1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:

     Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.

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

Derived terms

• antibillboard
• billboarded
• billboardesque
• billboarding
• billboardless
• billboardlike

 

Compound words and expressions

• billboard antenna

 

Descendants

• → Polish: billboard

Translations

large advertisement along side of highway

• Arabic: أَفِيش‎ m (ʔafīš), لَوْحَة‎ f (lawḥa), لَافِتَة‎ f (lāfita), يَافِطَة‎ f (yāfiṭa), لَوْحَة إعْلَانِيَّة‎ f (lawḥa ʔiʕlāniyya), لَوْحَة إِعْلَانَات‎ f (lawḥat ʔiʕlānāt), لَوْحَة إِشْهَارِيَّة‎ f (lawḥa ʔiʕšhāriyya)
• Belarusian: рэкла́мны шчыт m (reklámny ščyt), рэкля́мны шчыт m (rekljámny ščyt), білбо́рд m (bilbórd)
• Bulgarian: билбо́рд m (bilbórd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 看板 (zh) (kànbǎn), 廣告牌／广告牌 (zh) (guǎnggàopái)

• Czech: billboard (cs) (bilbord)
• Dutch: reclamebord (nl) n
• Esperanto: reklampanelo
• Finnish: mainostaulu (fi), tienvarsimainos
• French: panneau d'affichage m
• German: Plakatwand f, Werbetafel f, Reklametafel f, Werbeplakat n (colloquial)
• Hungarian: (noticeboard etc.) hirdetőtábla (hu), reklámtábla (hu), (poster) plakát (hu), poszter, óriásplakát, óriásposzter, gigantposzter, (electronic) villanyújság (hu), fényújság
• Indonesian: baliho (id)
• Italian: cartellone (it) m
• Japanese: 看板 (ja) (かんばん, kanban), ビルボード (birubōdo), 広告板 (こうこくばん, kōkokuban)
• Korean: 간판(看板) (ko) (ganpan), 빌보드 (bilbodeu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: papapānui
• Malay: papan iklan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зарын самбар (zaryn sambar)

• Navajo: óʼoolkąąh bee dah naʼaztą́
• Persian: بیلبورد‎ (bilbord)
• Polish: billboard (pl) m, baner (pl) m, banner (pl) m
• Portuguese: outdoor (pt) m
• Russian: афи́ша (ru) f (afíša), плака́т (ru) m (plakát), рекла́мный щит (ru) m (reklámnyj ščit), щит (ru) m (ščit), билбо́рд (ru) m (bilbórd), вы́веска (ru) f (výveska)
• Spanish: cartelera f, valla publicitaria f, espectacular (es) m (Mexico), publicidad exterior f (technical)
• Swedish: ankardyna c
• Tagalog: billboard, kartelera
• Thai: ป้ายโฆษณา (bpâai-kôot-sà-naa), ที่ประกาศ (tîi-bprà-gàat)
• Turkish: ilan panosu (tr), ilan tabelası, reklam panosu, reklam tabelası
• Ukrainian: білбо́рд m (bilbórd), рекла́мний щит m (reklámnyj ščyt)

panel or fence, on which bills are posted

• German: Anschlagtafel f, Anschlagbrett n

Further reading

• billboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• billboard (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• broadbill

Polish

Alternative forms

• bilbord

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbil.bɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -ilbɔrt
• Syllabification: bill‧board

Noun

billboard m inan

1. billboard (large advertisement along side of highway)

   billboard/bilbord reklamowy ― advertisement billboard

   postawić billboard/bilbord ― to put up a billboard

Declension

Declension of billboard

	singular	plural
nominative	billboard	billboardy
genitive	billboardu	billboardów
dative	billboardowi	billboardom
accusative	billboard	billboardy
instrumental	billboardem	billboardami
locative	billboardzie	billboardach
vocative	billboardzie	billboardy

Further reading

• billboard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• billboard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.

Noun

billboard (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜇ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of bilbord