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☆ bill·board (bil′bôrd′)

noun

a signboard, usually outdoors, for advertising posters

Etymology: bill + board

billboard2 definition

bill·board (-bôrd′)

noun

an inclined plane projecting from the bow of earlier ships, on which the anchor was placed before being dropped or after being raised

Etymology: bill + board

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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