bulletin board

noun

1

: a board for posting notices (as at a school)

2

: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages : message board

… a personal computer, a modem, and a telephone line are all you need to run your own bulletin board …

—John Seabrook

Computer bulletin board services offer up the glories of e-mail, the thought provocation of news-groups, the sharing of ideas implicit in public posting, and the interaction of real-time chats. The fabulous, wonderful, limitless world of communication is just waiting for you to log on.

—M. Kadi

Examples of bulletin board in a Sentence

Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.

Recent Examples on the Web

The school said in February that student employees now have the right to have a union steward present during preliminary disciplinary proceedings, to hang posters on workplace bulletin boards, and to have a union representative give a presentation at orientations for new student employees. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024

In another female prison, in the Ural Mountains, officials put up the recruitment offer on the bulletin board, and asked interested inmates to write a petition to join the army. —Ekaterina Bodyagina, New York Times, 4 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

bulletin board

noun

1

: a board for posting notices (as at a school)

2

: a place on a computer network (as the Internet) where people can leave or read public messages