bulletin board

noun

1

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

2

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

The aptly-named contributors to Reddit, the online bulletin board and social sharing platform, got "first dibs" at company shares when Reddit made its IPO …

—Laura Rodini

Examples of bulletin board in a Sentence

Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.

Recent Examples on the Web

Berry got his start in the early 1990s in early internet chat rooms and sports-centric bulletin boards. —Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026

Who needs bulletin board material for the Seahawks when a starting wide receiver is providing an unprompted defense of farmers? —Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026

Lord leaves the letters around town – in Little Free Libraries, at coffee shops, at the Milwaukee Public Market and on bulletin boards, among other spots. —Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 4 Feb. 2026

Back in Karagiorgi’s office, a bulletin board displays images from The Cognitive Art of Feynman Diagrams, an exhibit for which the designer Edward Tufte created wire sculptures of the physicist Richard Feynman’s schematics of particle interactions. —IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for bulletin board

• particleboard
• phonorecord
• underinsured
• abhorred
• aboard
• accord
• adored
• afford
• award
• baseboard
• billboard
• blackboard

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