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

   • 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31:

     The land refuses to change. The more he drives the more the region resembles the country around Mt. Judge. The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy.

   • 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”, in The Onlooker‎^[4], Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902:

     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. (television, radio) An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.
   • 1975, Television/Radio Age, volume 22, page 52:

     The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.

   • 1981, Broadcasting, volume 100, page 22:

     […] the opening billboard identifying Chase as the sponsor […]

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

Derived terms

• antibillboard
• billboard antenna
• billboarded
• Billboardese
• billboardesque
• billboarding
• billboardless
• billboardlike
• human billboard

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)
• Danish: reklametavle (da) c, plakattavle c
• Dutch: reclamebord (nl) n
• Esperanto: reklampanelo
• Finnish: mainostaulu (fi), tienvarsimainos
• French: panneau d’affichage m
• German: Plakatwand (de) f, Werbetafel (de) f, Reklametafel (de) f, Werbeplakat n (colloquial)
• Hungarian: (noticeboard etc.) hirdetőtábla (hu), reklámtábla (hu), (poster) plakát (hu), poszter (hu), óriásplakát (hu), óriásposzter, gigantposzter, (electronic) villanyújság (hu), fényújság (hu)
• 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
• Malay: papan iklan
• Maori: papapānui
• 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)
• 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)
• Yoruba: pátákó-ìpolówó-ọ̀jà

panel or fence, on which bills are posted

• German: Anschlagtafel (de) f, Anschlagbrett (de) n
• Swedish: anslagstavla (sv) c

Verb

billboard (third-person singular simple present billboards, present participle billboarding, simple past and past participle billboarded)

1. (transitive) To advertise on a billboard.

   The upcoming concert was billboarded all over the city.

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/

• Audio:

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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. Used due to Tagalog-English code-switching (Taglish).

Noun

billboard (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜇ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of bilbord