bulletin board

English

Etymology

From bulletin +‎ board.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bulletin board (plural bulletin boards)

1. A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.

   Synonyms: (UK) notice board, pinboard

   • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 90:

     Somewhere near Fillmore she found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:

     It should come as no surprise to see promotional material and bulletin boards in the department’s languages, though English is also present in the signage of this microcosm of the institution.

2. (computing) Ellipsis of bulletin board system.
   • 1984 September 3, Judith Walters von Alten, “Color for Bulletin Boards”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, →ISSN, page 35:

     Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second.

Derived terms

• bulletin board service
• bulletin board system

Translations

a board

• Afrikaans: kennisgewingbord
• Albanian: tabelë e njoftimeve f
• Arabic: لَوْحَة إِعْلَانَات f (lawḥat ʔiʕlānāt)
• Armenian: հայտարարությունների տախտակ (haytararutʻyunneri taxtak)
• Belarusian: до́шка аб'я́ў f (dóška abʺjáŭ), до́шка аб'я́ваў f (dóška abʺjávaŭ)
• Bengali: বুলেটিন বোর্ড (buleṭin bōrḍo), নোটিশ বোর্ড (nōṭiś bōrḍo)
• Bulgarian: табло́ за обя́ви n (tabló za objávi)
• Catalan: taulell d’anuncis m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 壁報板 / 壁报板 (bik¹ bou³ baan²)

  Mandarin: 揭示板 (jiēshìbǎn), 佈告欄 / 布告栏 (zh) (bùgàolán)

• Czech: nástěnka f
• Danish: opslagstavle (da) c
• Dutch: prikbord (nl) n
• Esperanto: anonctabulo
• Estonian: teadetetahvel (et), tahvel, infotahvel
• Finnish: ilmoitustaulu (fi)
• French: panneau d’affichage m, babillard (fr) m (Quebec)
• Georgian: განცხადებათა დაფა (gancxadebata dapa)
• German: Schwarzes Brett (de) n, Pinnwand (de) f, Korkwand f, Anschlagtafel (de) f, Anschlagbrett (de) n
• Haitian Creole: tablo afichaj
• Hebrew: לוּחַ מוֹדָעוֹת (he) m (luákh moda'ót)
• Hindi: बुलेटिन बोर्ड (buleṭin borḍ), नोटिस बोर्ड (noṭis borḍ)
• Hungarian: hirdetőtábla (hu), faliújság (hu)
• Indonesian: papan pengumuman (id)
• Italian: bacheca (it) f
• Japanese: 掲示板 (ja) (けいじばん, keijiban)
• Khmer: ក្ដារប្រកាស (kdaa prɑkaah), ក្ដារបិទប្រកាស (kdaa bət prɑkaah)
• Korean: 게시판(揭示板) (ko) (gesipan)
• Lao: ກະດານປ້າຍ (ka dān pāi), ປ້າຍຕິດປະກາດ (pāi tit pa kāt)
• Latvian: ziņojumu dēlis m
• Lithuanian: skelbimų lenta f
• Macedonian: о́гласна та́бла f (óglasna tábla)
• Malay: papan kenyataan
• Maori: papa whakaaturanga, papa whakaatu, papa pānui
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зарлалын самбар (zarlalyn sambar)

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تابْلویِ اِعْلانات (tâblo-ye e'lânât), بورْد (bord)

• Polish: tablica ogłoszeń f
• Portuguese: quadro de avisos m
• Romanian: avizier n
• Russian: доска́ объявле́ний (ru) f (doská obʺjavlénij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: огласна плоча f

  Roman: oglasna ploča f

• Slovak: nástenka f
• Slovene: oglasna deska f
• Spanish: tablón de anuncios m, cartelera f
• Swedish: anslagstavla (sv) c
• Tagalog: paskilan
• Thai: กระดานข่าว (grà-daan-kàao)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: pano (tr), bülten tahtası
• Ukrainian: до́шка оголо́шень f (dóška oholóšenʹ)
• Urdu: بُلِٹِن بورْڈ (buliṭin borḍ), نوٹِس بورْڈ (noṭis borḍ)
• Vietnamese: bảng công báo, bảng tin (vi)
• Welsh: hysbysfwrdd m

bulletin board system — see bulletin board system