bulletin board

noun

1
: a board for posting notices (as at a school)
2
: a public electronic forum that allows users to post or read messages : message board
… a personal computer, a modem, and a telephone line are all you need to run your own bulletin board …— John Seabrook
Computer bulletin board services offer up the glories of e-mail, the thought provocation of news-groups, the sharing of ideas implicit in public posting, and the interaction of real-time chats. The fabulous, wonderful, limitless world of communication is just waiting for you to log on.— M. Kadi

Examples of bulletin board in a Sentence

Our teacher put our pictures up on the bulletin board.
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Though the bulletin board has become littered with hateful, violent and extreme content, that original post led to a solution to the sophisticated math problem. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2025 Colorado State's Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and Tory Horton gave Sanders and company plenty of bulletin board material after boasting in an interview with CBS earlier this week. — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2024 Another parent, Dana Schechtman, told me that every day at pickup his two-year-old daughter insists on walking up to a bulletin board festooned with pictures of Weekday teachers. — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025 Eagle’s library board has voted to take down the library’s community bulletin board, a move that followed a controversy at the nearby Nampa Public Library surrounding a poster advertising a LGBTQ+ youth group. — Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bulletin board

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of bulletin board was in 1827

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bulletin board

noun
1
: a board for posting notices (as at a school)
2
: a place on a computer network (as the Internet) where people can leave or read public messages

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