Nameboard
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A signboard bearing a name.
"The former Metropolitan station was situated about five minutes' walk from the main street, and was always designated Uxbridge (Belmont Road) by Bradshaw, although there was no official sanction for this name; nothing of the sort ever appeared either on the station nameboards or the Metropolitan maps and timebills."
Example
More examples"The former Metropolitan station was situated about five minutes' walk from the main street, and was always designated Uxbridge (Belmont Road) by Bradshaw, although there was no official sanction for this name; nothing of the sort ever appeared either on the station nameboards or the Metropolitan maps and timebills."
Etymology
From name + board.
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