blackboard
noun
a sheet of smooth, hard material, especially dark slate, used in schools, lecture rooms, etc., for writing or drawing on with chalk.
blackboards
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pluralof blackboard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"How can you rehabilitate classrooms if you don't have cement? And above all, we need notebooks and books ... blackboards, the bare minimum," said Beigbeder.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
Since the blackboards were mounted low for children, “we would crawl and write equations,” Dr. Deser said.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
At the 4.16 Memorial Classroom, a museum dedicated to the students, the victims’ classrooms are re-created with desks, blackboards and other furniture from the school.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
It started, really, with those double pages that open the chapters that look like blackboards with white letters.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022
That was why everything put on the blackboards was quickly erased.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
