billboard

CEFRB2

/ˈbɪlˌboɹd/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
large outdoor signboard.
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noun
Extra detail
A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.

Examples

Selena Gomez's second album hit Billboard Magazine's top two hundred albums chart at number four.
The actress is featured on a large billboard advertising makeup.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

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.
A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.

In context

The upcoming concert was billboarded all over the city.
2009, "Looking For Benny Goodman Quartet - St. Louis Blues 1936". alt.music.big-band. This song was originally on Victor 25411 and charted on Billboard at #20 on 10/24/36.
2012, "Yogi Chill From Soulfood Music And DJ Free On Sale Digitally". Alt.emusic. He has charted on Billboard and several international DJ and Dance charts.

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

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
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
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.
1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31
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.
1971, Don DeLillo, Americana, Penguin, published 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71
The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.
1975, Television/Radio Age, volume 22, page 52

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