drawing board

1. 1.

   a smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings

   Synonymsdrafting board

   Broaderboard

Questions about drawing board

What does drawing board mean?

drawing board means "a smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings".

What is another word for drawing board?

Close synonyms include drafting 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 drawing board a common word?

drawing 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.