Billboard
/ˈbɪlˌboɹd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
nounA flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
Sentence 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.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Driving on the highway, we saw a giant ____ advertising the new movie release.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
There is a massive ____ by the highway advertising the new movie.
Word Origin & History
From bill + board.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]"
— 1902, “The Casual Club”, in The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Driving on the highway, we saw a giant ____ advertising the new movie release.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
There is a massive ____ by the highway advertising the new movie.