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bulletin board

noun

Etymology

From bulletin + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as bulletin board — “bulletin + board”

Definitions

  1. A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.

    • Somewhere near Fillmore she found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters.
    • It should come as no surprise to see promotional material and bulletin boards in the department’s languages, though English is also present in the signage of this microcosm of the institution.

  2. Ellipsis of bulletin board system.

    • Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA