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BLACKBOARD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blackboard mean?
• BLACKBOARD (noun)
The noun BLACKBOARD has 1 sense:
1. sheet of slate; for writing with chalk
Familiarity information: BLACKBOARD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sheet of slate; for writing with chalk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
blackboard; chalkboard
Hypernyms ("blackboard" is a kind of...):
flat solid; sheet (a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width)
Context examples
I knocked him down, and the police have him in custody; but I can tell you with the most absolute confidence that no possible connection will ever be traced between the gentleman upon whose front teeth I have barked my knuckles and the retiring mathematical coach, who is, I daresay, working out problems upon a blackboard ten miles away.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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