blackboard

[ blak-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈblækˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

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noun

a sheet of smooth, hard material, especially dark slate, used in schools, lecture rooms, etc., for writing or drawing on with chalk.

Also called chalkboard.

Compare greenboard.

Origin of blackboard

First recorded in 1815–25; black + board

Words nearby blackboard

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Definition for blackboard (2 of 2)

Blackboard Learn

[ blak-bawrd lurn, ‐bohrd ]

/ ˈblækˌbɔrd ˌlɜrn, ‐boʊrd /

Trademark.

the brand name of a learning management system, launched in 1998. Abbreviation: Bb

Also called Blackboard.

Example sentences from the Web for blackboard

Others cheated by taking crib sheets to the blackboard with them, concealing them from Jackson but not from the other students.

Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor |S. C. Gwynne |November 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
There could be no more fitting companion for the Acadian chicken stew entree inscribed on a blackboard in the dining room.

On the Canadian Border, It's Pancakes for Every Meal |Jane & Michael Stern |July 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
When gazpacho is on the blackboard menu at lunch, it's a must.

Holy Molé: Tucson’s Mexican Food with a Kick |Jane & Michael Stern |June 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In this clip, she heads to the blackboard and does her magic.

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An uneasy silence fell over the hot classroom as students stared at Professor Toole drawing feverishly on the blackboard.

The Professor and the Doomsday Clock: ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ & Signs of John Kennedy Toole’s Suicide |Cory MacLauchlin |December 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Conversational exercises and written work on the blackboard.

The School System of Norway |David Allen Anderson
He reiterated his praise of the singing and reading, the blackboard work and the moral tone.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) |Various
Beside this it contains several others, some of which we shall tell you about when we make up our blackboard outline.

Object Lessons on the Human Body |Sarah F. Buckelew and Margaret W. Lewis
But Miss Crossland was writing a problem upon the blackboard in compound proportion.

A Terrible Tomboy |Angela Brazil
And Phyllis did her duty by the tender steak as only fever and half a year of "Blackboard" steaks could make her.

The Wyndam Girls |Marion Ames Taggart

British Dictionary definitions for blackboard

blackboard

/ (ˈblækˌbɔːd) /

noun

a hard or rigid surface made of a smooth usually dark substance, used for writing or drawing on with chalk, esp in teaching

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

blackboard

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Origin of blackboard

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Definition for blackboard (2 of 2)

Trademark.

Example sentences from the Web for blackboard

British Dictionary definitions for blackboard

noun

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

blackboard

noun

Origin of blackboard

Words nearby blackboard

Definition for blackboard (2 of 2)

Trademark.

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Example sentences from the Web for blackboard

British Dictionary definitions for blackboard

noun