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Structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
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signboard
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Word definitions for signboard in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A signboard , by the entrance, proclaimed that the business had been established in 1852. ▪ A blue and red hand-painted signboard is hung over the entrance and a garland of marigolds placed around it. ▪ By the 1990s, the Rumbaughs ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A board carrying a sign, or on which signs may be posted.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sign-board , 1630s, from sign (n.) + board (n.1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Signboard \Sign"board`\, n. A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted; "the highway was lined with signboards" [syn: sign ]
Usage examples of signboard.
In their hands, our daguerrean sky-lights and shot towers, our factory chimneys and signboards, would have become glorious objects, become useful objects.
A 17A bus with the words foggy bottom illuminated on the signboards pulled in ahead of him, the driver waving casually in his mirror.
He came to the Spilmer public house and for a moment stared up, quite still, at the “Last Chance” on its chaffing signboard.
Craigtwatched him until the trees hid him, and only then 4id the leaven of his true hatred begin to rise within him Al he headlights of the Land-Rover swung across the signboard: King's Lynn Afrikander Stud Proprietor: Craig Mellow It seemed to mock him, then they were past it and rattling across the steel cattle-grid.
Their destination at Lake Balaton was sixty miles and two long days away, so they camped on the roadside that night, near the only building they had seen in several miles: a modest-sized csárda with the signboard Szep Juhászne.
And close by, between long rows of signboards, monstrously drawn and painted in glaring colors, rushed the trains, besmirching everything with their smoke.
The signboard swung in the gusts, invitingly torchlit, its prom-ise of warmth and comfort depicted in gilt letters and a brightly painted bullfrog with a tankard.
Such perfect unity should have been impossible on a world with no better mass communication methods than signboard and megaphone.
Go twar River till you see a big shup with a wall 'bout it, 'n a signboard swing over an arch, two-head fish, one spittin water't' other spittin wine.
The signboard was worn and battered, as if it had been in and out of a cargo hold a thousand times.