name · noun · verb · 39 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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11
noun
Meaning 11
A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
Examples
1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 pg 481. The real beginning of the festivities is on Christmas-eve, when the large parties meet their friends from far and near round the festive board.
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12
noun
Meaning 12
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
to bind a book in boards
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13
noun
Meaning 13
A level or stage having a particular two-dimensional layout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: video-games
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14
noun
Meaning 14
The portion of the playing field where creatures or minions can be placed (or played, summoned, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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15
noun
Meaning 15
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: bridge, games
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16
noun
Meaning 16
A Philippine provincial or Uruguayan departmental assembly or council.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: local government
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17
noun
Meaning 17
A rebound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: use, habituate
38
verb
Meaning 38
get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: get on
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
Narrower terms: embark, ship, entrain, catch
39
verb
Meaning 39
live and take one's meals at or in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
she rooms in an old boarding house
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: room
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
History
Etymology
Board (duplicate bridge) From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhers- (“tip, top”) + *-dheti or *bherH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dheti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table". Cognates Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bord (“plank; table”), Elfdalian buord (“table”), Faroese and Icelandic borð (“board, plank; table”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (*baurd, “board, plank”) (whence 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd, “footstool”).
From backboard.
Across languages
Translations
483 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Albanian:
dhogë
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Southern Altai:
такта
(takta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Arabic:
لَوْحَة
(lawḥa)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Arabic:
خَشَبَة
(ḵašaba)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Armenian:
տախտակ
(taxtak)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Azerbaijani:
taxta
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Azerbaijani:
lövhə
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Bangi:
libaya
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Bashkir:
таҡта
(taqta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Basque:
taula
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Belarusian:
до́шка
(dóška)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Bengali:
তক্তা
(tokta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Bulgarian:
дъска́
(dǎská)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Burmese:
ပျဉ်
(pyany)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Catalan:
post
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Catalan:
tauler
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Cherokee:
ᎠᏯᏖᎾ
(ayatena)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Chinese Mandarin:
板
(bǎn)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Chinese Mandarin:
板子
(bǎnzi)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Ngazidja Comorian:
uɓao class 11/10
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Ngazidja Comorian:
ɓao
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Czech:
prkno
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Czech:
deska
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Danish:
bræt
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Dutch:
plank
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Esperanto:
tabulo
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Estonian:
laud
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Finnish:
lauta
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
French:
planche
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Galician:
táboa
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Galician:
bordo
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Georgian:
ფიცარი
(picari)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
German:
Brett
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
German:
Brittli
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Greek:
σανίδα
(sanída)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Ancient Greek:
ἄβαξ
(ábax)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Ancient Greek:
σανίς
(sanís)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Hebrew:
לוּחַ
(lúakh)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Hindi:
तख़्ता
(taxtā)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Hindi:
तख्ता
(takhtā)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Hindi:
पट्ट
(paṭṭ)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Hungarian:
deszka
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Hungarian:
tábla
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Hungarian:
lap
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Icelandic:
borð
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Irish:
clár
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Italian:
asse
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Italian:
tavola
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Japanese:
板
(ita)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Kazakh:
тақта
(taqta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Khmer:
ក្ដារ
(kdaa)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Korean:
판자
(panja)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Central Kurdish:
تەختە
(texte)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Central Kurdish:
تەتە
(tete)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Northern Kurdish:
texte
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Kyrgyz:
такта
(takta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Lao:
ກະດານ
(ka dān)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Latin:
tabula
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Latvian:
dēlis
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Lingala:
libaya
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Lithuanian:
lenta
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Macedonian:
даска
(daska)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Malay:
papan
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Malayalam:
പലക
(palaka)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Māori:
papa
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Māori:
kōpapa
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Middle English:
bord
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Middle English:
schyd
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Middle English:
brede
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Mongolian:
банз
(banz)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Moore:
rao-peoko
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Navajo:
tsineheeshjííʼ
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Norwegian Bokmål:
bord
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Norwegian Bokmål:
planke
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Norwegian Nynorsk:
bord
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Norwegian Nynorsk:
planke
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Occitan:
pòst
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Occitan:
taula
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Occitan:
planca
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Ojibwe:
nabagisag
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Church Slavic:
дъска
(dŭska)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Old English:
bord
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Pannonian Rusyn:
деска
(deska)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Pashto:
تخته
(taxtá)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Dari:
تَخْتَه
(taxta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Iranian Persian:
تَخْتِه
(taxte)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Plautdietsch:
Brat
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Polish:
deska
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Portuguese:
tábua
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Quechua:
llapsa k'ulllu
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Romanian:
scândură
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Russian:
доска́
(doská)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Serbo-Croatian:
да̀ска
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Serbo-Croatian:
dàska
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Slovak:
doska
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Slovak:
panel
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Slovene:
deska
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Spanish:
tablero
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Spanish:
tabla
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Swahili:
bao
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Swedish:
bräda
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Swedish:
skiva
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Tajik:
тахта
(taxta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Tatar:
такта
(taqta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Telugu:
చెక్కబల్ల
(cekkaballa)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Thai:
กระดาน
(grà-daan)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Turkish:
tahta
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Ottoman Turkish:
تخته
(tahta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Turkmen:
tagta
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Ukrainian:
до́шка
(dóška)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Unami:
sikaxkw
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Urdu:
تَخْتَہ
(taxta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Uyghur:
تاختا
(taxta)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Uzbek:
taxta
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Vietnamese:
bảng
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Vietnamese:
ván
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Vietnamese:
phiến
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Welsh:
bwrdd
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Welsh:
astell
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Yiddish:
ברעט
(bret)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Yiddish:
טאָוול
(tovl)
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material
Yup'ik:
tuskaq
— long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material