billboard
1a flat surface or board, usually outdoors, on which large advertisements or notices are posted.
to place, advertise, proclaim, etc., on or as if on a billboard: The movie was billboarded as the year's biggest hit.
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1Words Nearby billboard
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How to use billboard in a sentence
Joe and the record label were behind him all the way: look at the full-page ad in billboard the previous week.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ | Peter Guralnick | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was creative thinking like this that helped it debut at number one on billboard Top Heatseekers Chart.
OK Go Is Helping Redefine the Music Video For the Internet Age | Lauren Schwartzberg | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen just 8-years-old he saw writing on a deli billboard that was in Hebrew.
Out of the Birdcage: How Mike Nichols Made Gay Culture Mainstream | Kevin Fallon | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTbillboard and Entertainment Weekly similarly praised it upon the anniversary.
When the Religious Right Attacked ‘The Little Mermaid’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Swift is only in her second week of 1989 and already moved a million units, according to billboard.
Taylor Swift Dumps Spotify, Igniting Turf War Between Spotify and Apple | Dale Eisinger | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Some distance ahead stretched a long, smooth, sandy beach, on which was a huge billboard with the words "Perry's Slope."
The Cruise of the Noah's Ark | David CoryA large billboard, blown flat, was the first sign that they were approaching Tippewa.
Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil | Alice B. EmersonThe craft was moored to the supports of the billboard, on one side, and to a heavy wagon on the other.
Motor Matt's Daring Rescue | Stanley R. MatthewsFerral, finding everything quiet in the alley, strolled around by the end of the billboard.
Motor Matt's Daring Rescue | Stanley R. MatthewsWhile Carl was getting up, he saw Brady disappearing around one end of the billboard.
Motor Matt's Daring Rescue | Stanley R. Matthews
British Dictionary definitions for billboard (1 of 2)
/ (ˈbɪlˌbɔːd) /
another name for hoarding
Origin of billboard
1British Dictionary definitions for billboard (2 of 2)
/ (ˈbɪlˌbɔːd) /
a fitting at the bow of a vessel for securing an anchor
Origin of billboard
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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