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[blak-bawrd, -bohrd] Origin

black·board

[blak-bawrd, -bohrd]
noun
a sheet of smooth, hard material, especially dark slate, used in schools, lecture rooms, etc., for writing or drawing on with chalk.
Also called chalkboard.
Compare greenboard.


Origin:
1815–25; black + board
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Blackboard is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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blackboard (ˈblækˌbɔːd)
 
n
a hard or rigid surface made of a smooth usually dark substance, used for writing or drawing on with chalk, esp in teaching

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blackboard
1823, from black + board. Blackboard jungle "inner-city school rife with juvenile delinquency" is from Evan Hunter's novel title (1954).
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