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

However, LaFleur might have been trying to avoid putting up bulletin board material of his own. —Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025

Flyers advertising Spanish club events on bulletin boards. —Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2025

Surely, that was all bulletin board material for the Buckeyes to remember for nearly 365 days. —Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 29 Nov. 2025

Working with community volunteers who help maintain the nearby La Jolla Bike Path, Parker made and installed a new bulletin board in front of Starkey Park on Draper Avenue. —Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025

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