Definition of Placard

1. Noun. A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement. "A poster advertised the coming attractions"

Exact synonyms: Bill, Card, Notice, Poster, Posting
Generic synonyms: Sign
Specialized synonyms: Show Bill, Show Card, Theatrical Poster, Flash Card, Flashcard
Derivative terms: Bill, Bill, Post, Post, Post, Post, Post

2. Verb. Post in a public place.
Generic synonyms: Post

3. Verb. Publicize or announce by placards.
Exact synonyms: Bill
Generic synonyms: Post
Derivative terms: Bill

Definition of Placard

1. n. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.

2. v. t. To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.

Definition of Placard

1. Noun. A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place. ¹

2. Verb. To affix a placard to. ¹

3. Verb. To announce with placards. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Placard

1. to publicize by means of posters [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Placard

1. 1. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. "All placards or edicts are published in his name." (Howell) 2. Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. 3. A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster. 4. An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. 5. [Cf. Placket] A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later. Origin: F, fr. Plaquer to lay or clap on, plaque plate, tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. Plakken to paste, post up, plak a flat piece of wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Placard

pièce montée
pièces d'occasion
pièces de résistance
pj's
pkV
pkat
pkg
pla
plac'd
plac't
placabilities
placability
placable
placableness
placably
placarded
placarder
placarders
placarding
placards
placate
placated
placater
placaters
placates
placating
placatingly
placationist

Literary usage of Placard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991)
"Failure to completely placard or failure to apply correct placards. ... Failure to placard in compliance with hazardous materials regulations. ..."

2. A Relation, Or Rather A True Account, of the Island of England: With Sundry by Charlotte Augusta Sneyd (1847)
"A cote of damaske cloth of gold, with sleeves and placard therto. A cote of purple velvet, embroidered with damask cloth of gold. ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"[The Du. plakkaat, a placard, is merely borrowed back again from the French.] y. The Du. phi is cognate with G. blech, a plate, and comes from a base PLAK, ..."

4. A Book of Verse of the Great War by William Reginald Wheeler (1917)
"But later when sleep forsook me the placard flashed again, Burning my inward vision in the lonely deep of night. The thousands stood no longer in printed ..."

5. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1877)
"... 'placard issued in March 1614. It is resolved, before determining herein, that the Comparants shall he ordered to render and transmit in writing the ..."

6. Works of the Camden Society by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"A cote of damaske eloth of gold, with sleeves and placard therto. A cote of purple velvet, embroidered with damask cloth of gold. ..."

7. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"On a Libel Contained in a placard.— 1. The plaintiff is, etc. 3. The defendant, on or about the 10th day of January, 1887, ..."

8. Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991)
"Failure to completely placard or failure to apply correct placards. ... Failure to placard in compliance with hazardous materials regulations. ..."

9. A Relation, Or Rather A True Account, of the Island of England: With Sundry by Charlotte Augusta Sneyd (1847)
"A cote of damaske cloth of gold, with sleeves and placard therto. A cote of purple velvet, embroidered with damask cloth of gold. ..."

10. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"[The Du. plakkaat, a placard, is merely borrowed back again from the French.] y. The Du. phi is cognate with G. blech, a plate, and comes from a base PLAK, ..."

11. A Book of Verse of the Great War by William Reginald Wheeler (1917)
"But later when sleep forsook me the placard flashed again, Burning my inward vision in the lonely deep of night. The thousands stood no longer in printed ..."

12. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1877)
"... 'placard issued in March 1614. It is resolved, before determining herein, that the Comparants shall he ordered to render and transmit in writing the ..."

13. Works of the Camden Society by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"A cote of damaske eloth of gold, with sleeves and placard therto. A cote of purple velvet, embroidered with damask cloth of gold. ..."

14. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"On a Libel Contained in a placard.— 1. The plaintiff is, etc. 3. The defendant, on or about the 10th day of January, 1887, ..."

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