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

He’s homed in on Risch’s age in campaign ads and put up billboards that wished his opponent a happy 83rd birthday — and urged him to retire. — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 27 Oct. 2026 To help make the project financially feasible for the developer, the city endorsed advertising on the building in the form of five static displays and one full-motion video billboard. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 27 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

Stevens and el Sayed’s dispute largely centered on an advertisement that Jewish leaders have condemned as antisemitic.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 1 Nov. 2026
Those plans unraveled after a dispute over Israel and an outside group’s campaign advertisement escalated into a public exchange of criticism between the rivals.

— Joey Cappelletti, Chicago Tribune, 1 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

Bracie was very hands-on, selecting the fabrics, designing the clothes, arranging the photoshoots, and even modeling gowns for posters that will appear in Dillards.

— Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2026
Some fans held up large posters and asked for autographs, while chants of the director’s first name broke out from the crowd.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of poster

Noun

Del Naja was one of hundreds of protesters arrested in London in April for holding a placard in support of the activist group Palestine Action, which is banned under UK terrorism law.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Trade unions led the procession, followed by protesters in raincoats carrying flags and handmade placards.

— Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 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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