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leaderboard

noun

Etymology

From leader + 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 leaderboard — “leader + board”

Definitions

  1. A board showing the ranking of leaders in a competition.

  2. An advertisement on a web page spanning the width of the page and shallow in height.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for leaderboard. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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