SIGNBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does signboard mean? 

• SIGNBOARD (noun)
  The noun SIGNBOARD has 1 sense:

1. structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted

  Familiarity information: SIGNBOARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGNBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sign; signboard

Context example:

the highway was lined with signboards

Hypernyms ("signboard" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signboard"):

billboard; hoarding (large outdoor signboard)

sandwich board (signboard consisting of two hinged boards that hang front and back from the shoulders of a walker and are used to display advertisements)

scoreboard (a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information))

shingle (a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.)

 Context examples 

The captain, for his part, stood staring at the signboard like a bewildered man.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)