BULLETIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bulletin mean? 

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

1. a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast)

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

• BULLETIN (verb)
  The verb BULLETIN has 1 sense:

1. make public by bulletin

  Familiarity information: BULLETIN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULLETIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

account; news report; report; story; write up (a short account of the news)

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

flash; news bulletin; newsbreak; newsflash (a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story)

information bulletin (a bulletin containing the latest information)

Derivation:

bulletin (make public by bulletin)

• BULLETIN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make public by bulletin

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "bulletin" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

bulletin (a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast))

 Context examples 

Mr. Brooke sent a bulletin every day, and as the head of the family, Meg insisted on reading the dispatches, which grew more cheerful as the week passed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)