BILLBOARD Synonyms: 114 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of billboard

as in ad

a large sign for advertisements that is next to a road, on the side of a building, etc.

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verb

as in to bulletin

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Recent Examples of billboard

Noun

The advertisement billboard, which sits on the bustling 26th of July Axis in Cairo, made waves on social media as many people stopped their cars and pulled out their phones to record. — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026 The trees were cut down to improve visibility of a billboard owned by Adams Outdoor Advertising. — Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2026

Verb

White grew up in Brooklyn, and watched a rotating stream of Calvin Klein models grace that billboard his whole life. — Staff Author, People.com, 27 June 2025 The artist billboards that pop up in the lead up to Coachella often establish a sense of optimism for the performances in store for the weekend. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for billboard

Recent Examples of Synonyms for billboard

Noun

Colom ended his campaign with an ad set at the Jackson home of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was gunned down in 1963 in his own driveway, dying in front of his wife and children.

— BILL BARROW, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
Meta makes nearly all of its money selling ads, and an assistant built by an ad company will tend to find that the answer involves more advertising.

— Eric Groves, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of ad

Verb

Messages tacked to bulletin boards and written on dressing room blackboards conveyed the spirit of the team.

— Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2022
Viewers are asked to respond to prompts based on works on view in the show by scribbling notes or making sketches on brightly colored pieces of paper, and pinning them to bulletin boards.

— Steven Litt, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021

Definition of bulletin

Noun

Roku will automatically switch the Aquatic Life screensaver on affected devices to the Roku City screensaver, another popular animation that includes subtle advertisements, according to the user notice.

— Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
That includes a new Tommy Hilfiger advertisement featuring Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of advertisement

Verb

There is no lease, no waiting room, no receptionist, and no billing department because there is nothing to bill.

— Mariska Breland, STAT, 4 Nov. 2026
According to the investigation, Biogen estimated that the company would be able to bill Medicare twelve billion dollars a year for the drug.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of bill

Noun

Students made posters with her name to hang around the school.

— Joe Holden, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026
On my first day, the head of the advertising department, Gabe Sumner, spotted a fresh pair of eyes and pulled me into his office to look at a series of potential one-sheets (posters) leaning against his sofa.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of poster

Noun

Two far-right activists disrupted a Diwali celebration in Seattle with placards calling for the deportation of Hindus and invoking a conspiracy theory about the replacement of Christians.

— Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026
Part of the charm of traveling in New England is waking up in a town that feels plucked right out of a movie, grabbing a latte at the local coffee shop, and strolling down streets filled with homes bearing historic placards.

— Heather Bien, Martha Stewart, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of placard

Verb

The 2019 General Assembly wouldn’t support Lamont’s tolling plan, and one year later lawmakers also balked at a more limited plan to toll only large commercial trucks.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026
Despite being published nearly fifty years later, Love Days tolls the same alarm bells as The Story of Avis.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

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