bulletin board

1. 1.

   a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest

   Synonymsbulletin board systemelectronic bulletin boardbbs

   Broaderdigital computer

   computer science

2. 2.

   a board that hangs on a wall; displays announcements

   Synonymsnotice board

   Broaderboard

   Narrowercall-board

Questions about bulletin board

What does bulletin board mean?

bulletin board means "a computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bulletin board?

Close synonyms include bulletin board system, electronic bulletin board, bbs, notice board. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bulletin board a common word?

bulletin board is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.