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boards is a noun meaning "(used in the plural) the stage of a theater". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(used in the plural) the stage of a theater
“most actors love to stride the boards”
plural
(used in the plural) the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink
plural
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boards come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.