Standard Lemma guide

whiteboard

noun · verb · 3 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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  • Received-Pronunciation: wītbôd
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪtbɔːd/
  • General-American: wītbôrd
  • General-American: /ˈwaɪtbɔɹd/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common space, and the walls were covered with white board, which quickly became a tangle of multicolored lines, words, circles, and squiggles.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To use a whiteboard, to write on a writeboard

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From white + board, modelled on blackboard.

Across languages

Translations

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: سَبُورَة بَيْضَاء (sabūra bayḍāʔ) — large vertical writing area
  • Basque: arbel zuri — large vertical writing area
  • Belarusian: бе́лая до́шка (bjélaja dóška) — large vertical writing area
  • Belarusian: до́шка (dóška) — large vertical writing area
  • Bengali: হোয়াইট বোর্ড (hōẇaiṭ bōrḍo) — large vertical writing area
  • Bulgarian: бя́ла дъска́ (bjála dǎská) — large vertical writing area
  • Catalan: pissarra blanca — large vertical writing area
  • Chinese Cantonese: 白板 (baak6 baan2) — large vertical writing area
  • Chinese Mandarin: 白板 (báibǎn) — large vertical writing area
  • Cornish: bord gwynn — large vertical writing area
  • Czech: tabule — large vertical writing area
  • Czech: bílá tabule — large vertical writing area
  • Danish: whiteboard — large vertical writing area
  • Dutch: whiteboard — large vertical writing area
  • Esperanto: skribtabulo — large vertical writing area
  • Finnish: valkotaulu — large vertical writing area
  • French: tableau — large vertical writing area
  • French: tableau blanc — large vertical writing area
  • German: Tafel — large vertical writing area
  • German: Weißwandtafel — large vertical writing area
  • German: Whiteboard — large vertical writing area
  • Greek: λευκοπίνακας (lefkopínakas) — large vertical writing area
  • Hindi: व्हाइटबोर्ड (vhāiṭborḍ) — large vertical writing area
  • Hindi: वाइटबोर्ड (vāiṭborḍ) — large vertical writing area
  • Ingrian: doska — large vertical writing area
  • Irish: clár bán — large vertical writing area
  • Italian: lavagna — large vertical writing area
  • Italian: lavagna bianca — large vertical writing area
  • Japanese: ホワイトボード (howaitobōdo) — large vertical writing area
  • Japanese: 白板 (hakuban) — large vertical writing area
  • Khmer: ក្ដារខៀនស (kdaa khiən sɑɑ) — large vertical writing area
  • Korean: 화이트보드 (hwaiteubodeu) — large vertical writing area
  • Korean: 백판 (baekpan) — large vertical writing area
  • Lao: ກະດານຂາວ (ka dān khāo) — large vertical writing area
  • Latvian: tāfele — large vertical writing area
  • Lithuanian: balta lenta — large vertical writing area
  • Lithuanian: baltoji lenta — large vertical writing area
  • Macedonian: бела табла (bela tabla) — large vertical writing area
  • Malay: papan putih — large vertical writing area
  • Māori: papamā — large vertical writing area
  • Norman: blianche plianche — large vertical writing area
  • Norwegian Bokmål: whiteboard — large vertical writing area
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tusjtavle — large vertical writing area
  • Dari: تَخْتِهٔ سَفید (taxti-yi safēd) — large vertical writing area
  • Iranian Persian: تَخْتِهٔ سِفید (taxte-ye sefid) — large vertical writing area
  • Iranian Persian: تَخْتِهسِفید (taxte-sefid) — large vertical writing area
  • Iranian Persian: وایْتبُرْد (vâyt-bord) — large vertical writing area
  • Polish: tablica suchościeralna — large vertical writing area
  • Polish: tablica — large vertical writing area
  • Portuguese: quadro branco — large vertical writing area
  • Quechua: pirqa qillqana — large vertical writing area
  • Romanian: tablă — large vertical writing area
  • Russian: доска́ (doská) — large vertical writing area
  • Russian: бе́лая доска́ (bélaja doská) — large vertical writing area
  • Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-geal — large vertical writing area
  • Serbo-Croatian: бела табла — large vertical writing area
  • Serbo-Croatian: бијела табла — large vertical writing area
  • Serbo-Croatian: bela tabla — large vertical writing area
  • Serbo-Croatian: bijela tabla — large vertical writing area
  • Slovak: biela tabuľa — large vertical writing area
  • Slovene: bela tabla — large vertical writing area
  • Spanish: pizarra — large vertical writing area
  • Spanish: pizarra blanca — large vertical writing area
  • Spanish: pizarrón albo — large vertical writing area
  • Swahili: ubao mweupe — large vertical writing area
  • Swedish: vit tavla — large vertical writing area
  • Swedish: skrivtavla — large vertical writing area
  • Swedish: whiteboard — large vertical writing area
  • Tajik: тахтаи сафед — large vertical writing area
  • Thai: ไวท์บอร์ด — large vertical writing area
  • Thai: กระดานขาว (grà-daan-kǎao) — large vertical writing area
  • Turkish: beyaz tahta — large vertical writing area
  • Ukrainian: бі́ла до́шка (bíla dóška) — large vertical writing area
  • Ukrainian: до́шка (dóška) — large vertical writing area
  • Urdu: وائِٹ بورْڈ (vāiṭ borḍ) — large vertical writing area
  • Urdu: تَخْتَۂ سَفید — large vertical writing area
  • Vietnamese: bảng trắng — large vertical writing area
  • Lithuanian: interaktyvi lenta — collaborative tool
  • Lithuanian: interaktyvioji lenta — collaborative tool
  • Polish: tablica multimedialna — collaborative tool