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/bˈʊlɪtən bɔrd/ Listen

noun

Bulletin n.

A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.

A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.

bulletin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.

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Etymology of 'Bulletin board'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bulletin board" Quotes from Famous Books

... leave the Lodge Gates for the station in seven minutes, Berta dropped spoon and napkin in eager haste to depart. Out into the corridor and around the balusters to the messenger room where they were required to register their names and destination. At the foot of the broad staircase hung the bulletin board in the pale flicker of a lowered gas-jet. The morning light was brightening through the windows beyond. Berta halted mechanically to scan the oblong of dark red in search of possible new notices. Something may have been posted since ...

— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz

... Gashwiler, the beneficiary, showed but the scantest appreciation. Indeed, the day opened with a disagreement between the forward-looking clerk and his hide-bound reactionary. Gashwiler had reached the store at his accustomed hour of 8:30 to find Merton embellishing the bulletin board in front with legends setting forth especial bargains of the ...

— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson

... On a bulletin board in the middle of the entrance, just before the marble box-office, it was lettered again in dignified black type: "JEAN OF THE LAZY A." Below was one ...

— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower