blackboardnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈblæk.bɔːd/us/-bɔːrd/US also chalkboardA2 a dark surface on a wall or frame that a teacher writes on with chalk (= white substance)
Examples
- Alice rubbed the blackboard clean for the teacher.
- She rubbed the sums off the blackboard for the teacher.
- I hate the scrape of chalk on a blackboard.
- The lecturer illustrated his point with a diagram on the blackboard.
- My daughter has a blackboard in her bedroom.
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Examples from literature
- If the shape of a room is shown on the blackboard, what have we drawn?
- Make a scoreboard on the blackboard, indicating each row by a number of letter.
- The teacher would write six easy characters each afternoon on the blackboard for the girls to copy before going home.
- The writing at first may be entirely at the blackboard, where the teacher's copy may be reproduced.
- To the left of the blackboard was the corner in which we had to kneel when naughty.