Placard

['plækɑːd] or ['plækɑrd]

Definition

(verb.) publicize or announce by placards.

(verb.) post in a public place.

Checker: Truman--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.

(n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.

(n.) A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

(n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.

(n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

(v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.

(v. t.) To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.

Editor: Solomon

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Poster, bill, hand-bill, broadside.

v. a. [1]. Advertise (by placards), publish, announce, make known, blaze abroad, spread abroad.[2]. Post, expose to obloquy.

Editor: Wallace

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Handbill, poster, bin, broadside

Checked by Genevieve

Definition

n. a written or printed paper stuck upon a wall as an advertisement &c.: a public proclamation: the woodwork and frame of the door of a closet and the like.—v.t. Placard (plā-ké‹œd′ or plak′é‹œd) to publish or notify by placards.

Edited by Kitty