bulletin board

English

Etymology

bulletin +‎ board

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, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 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

• Armenian: հայտարարությունների տախտակ (haytararutʻyunneri taxtak)
• 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
• Esperanto: anonctabulo
• Finnish: ilmoitustaulu (fi)
• French: panneau d’affichage m
• Georgian: განცხადებათა დაფა (gancxadebata dapa)
• German: Schwarzes Brett (de) n, Pinnwand (de) f, Korkwand f
• Italian: bacheca (it) f
• Japanese: 掲示板 (ja) (けいじばん, keijiban)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 게시판(揭示板) (ko) (gesipan)
• Macedonian: о́гласна та́бла f (óglasna tábla)
• Malay: papan kenyataan
• Maori: papa whakaaturanga, papa whakaatu, papa pānui
• Mongolian: зарлалын самбар (zarlalyn sambar)
• Persian: تابلوی اعلانات (fa) (tâblo-ye e'lânât), بورد (fa) (bôrd)
• Polish: tablica ogłoszeń f
• Portuguese: quadro de avisos m
• Russian: доска́ объявле́ний (ru) f (doská obʺjavlénij)
• Serbo-Croatian: oglasna ploča
• Spanish: tablón de anuncios m
• Swedish: anslagstavla (sv) c
• Tagalog: paskilan
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: pano (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: hysbysfwrdd m

bulletin board system — see bulletin board system