board – English noun declension

English noun forms of board

Noun: board
Singularboard
Pluralboards

Sample Sentences

  • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.
  • We have to wait to hear back from the board.
  • board and lodging
  • room and board
  • His board was served by his landlady, the owner of the boarding house. [meals]
  • His board seemed a bit steep, but he accepted it because the house was clean and his fellow lodgers were respectful neighbors. [price for meals]
  • Now board to board the rival vessels row. [1697, Virgil, “The Fifth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • Fruit of all kinds […] / She gathers, tribute large, and on the board / Heaps with unsparing hand. [1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • 1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 pg 481.
  • The real beginning of the festivities is on Christmas-eve, when the large parties meet their friends from far and near round the festive board.
  • "A man," added Cripps, pointing at the MacQuibble, who took no manner of notice, but smoked impassively, "who comes to my hospitable board meanly disguised as an artist, and filches the table wine." [1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 17:]
  • “Take your seat at my board, and let me drink to your health.” [1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 26:]
  • Túrin took a seat without heed, for he was wayworn, and filled with thought; and by ill-luck he set himself at a board among the elders of the realm, and in that place where Saeros was accustomed to sit. [2007, J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Húrin:]
  • to bind a book in boards
  • The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […] [2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, “Future Shocks”, in Your Sinclair, number 94:]
  • You are able to then change a color candy with any candy around the board, similar to the way you are able to with color bomb candies. [2015, Hiddenstuff Entertainment, Candy Crush Soda Saga Game Guide, page 23:]

Etymology

1. Board (duplicate bridge)
2. From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, top”) + *-dʰeti or *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dʰeti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table".
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish bord (“plank; table”), Elfdalian buord (“table”), Faroese and Icelandic borð (“board, plank; table”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (*baurd, “board, plank”) (whence 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd, “footstool”). See: Old English Nouns 'bord', Dutch Nouns 'bord', German Nouns 'Bord'.

Verbs referencing "board"

Danish Nouns bord, English Nouns border, Russian Nouns абордаж, English Nouns booru, Zulu Nouns ibhodi.