chalkboard

[ chawk-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈtʃɔkˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

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noun

a blackboard, especially a green or other light-colored one.

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Origin of chalkboard

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40; chalk + board

Words nearby chalkboard

chalice, chaliced, chalicothere, chalk, chalk and talk, chalkboard, chalkface, chalk line, chalk out, chalkpit, chalkrail

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How to use chalkboard in a sentence

Improvements were slow and small–one year a mud and straw wall replaced a tent flap, the next we would be given a chalkboard for school in place of hanging paper.
The Invisible Tragedy Facing Refugees Like Me|Mondiant Dogon|October 8, 2021|Time
We were surprised that some of the apartment’s weirder elements in the photos—a massive chalkboard and one very long, very salmon pink wall—hadn’t been removed or painted over before we moved in.
The science-backed ways to make your home a happier place to be|Alexandra Ossola|January 24, 2021|Quartz
By the end of one of his lectures, the chalkboard would be dusty from his scribbling of matrix equations and linear curves.
The Jamaican connection|Robert Samuels|January 13, 2021|Washington Post
Instead, artfully scrawl the evening’s courses on a reusable chalkboard the same way a restaurant might announce its nightly specials.
Gifts to make eating at home feel like dining out|Corinne Iozzio|November 23, 2020|Popular-Science

They made sense in the rarefied world of chalkboard equations, but in the far messier realm of the universe itself, the conditions might not exist to allow so tidy a stellar collapse.
The 2020 Physics Nobel Winners Helped Us Better Understand the Universe's Most Mysterious Phenomenon|Jeffrey Kluger|October 7, 2020|Time
A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.
The Congo's Forgotten Colonial Getaway|Nina Strochlic|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then they stood in front of the chalkboard, smug and self-satisfied.
Iceland Is Beautiful. And Sooo Weird.|Kevin Fallon|April 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“We have classes here,” she adds, pointing to a chalkboard behind her.
‘Portlandia’ Duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Discuss the Secrets to the Cult Show’s Success|Marlow Stern|February 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Especially when the one you love has a voice like nails on a helium-soaked chalkboard.
Chucky, the Possessed Doll, on His Favorite Kills—and Katherine Heigl|Chucky|October 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
They were painted as quickly as possible, in front of their subjects – a tombstone and a chalkboard.
Different Strokes|Blake Gopnik|July 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for chalkboard

chalkboard

/ (ˈtʃɔːkˌbɔːd) /

noun

US and Canadian a hard or rigid surface made of a smooth usually dark substance, used for writing or drawing on with chalk, esp in teachingAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): blackboard

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