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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
billboard (plural billboards)
- 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.
- (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.
- 1902, “The Casual Club,” The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902,[4]
- (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.[1]
- (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is looked at from.
Derived terms[edit]
Compound words and expressions
Descendants[edit]
- → Polish: billboard
Translations[edit]
large advertisement along side of highway
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panel or fence, on which bills are posted
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References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
billboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
billboard (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
Polish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
billboard m inan
- billboard (large advertisement along side of highway)
- billboard/bilbord reklamowy ― advertisement billboard
- postawić billboard/bilbord ― to put up a billboard
Declension[edit]
Declension of billboard
singular | plural | |
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nominative | billboard | billboardy |
genitive | billboardu | billboardów |
dative | billboardowi | billboardom |
accusative | billboard | billboardy |
instrumental | billboardem | billboardami |
locative | billboardzie | billboardach |
vocative | billboardzie | billboardy |
Further reading[edit]
- billboard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- billboard in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English billboard.
Noun[edit]
billboard (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜇ᜔)
- Alternative spelling of bilbord
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