composition board

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   a stiff moderately thick paper

   Synonymscardboard

   Broaderpaperpacking material

   Narrowerbinder's boardcardcorrugated boardpaperboardpasteboardstrawboard

Questions about composition board

What does composition board mean?

composition board means "a stiff moderately thick paper".

What is another word for composition board?

Close synonyms include cardboard. 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 composition board a common word?

composition 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.