placard

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: plac=ard

CIDE DICTIONARY

placard, n. [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.].

•  A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.  [1913 Webster]

  "All placards or edicts are published in his name."  [1913 Webster]
•  Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.  ller.  [1913 Webster]
•  A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.  [1913 Webster]
•  An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.  Planch'82.  [1913 Webster]
•  A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.  [1913 Webster]

placard, v. t. 

•  To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.  [1913 Webster]
•  To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

placard, n. & v.
--n. a printed or handwritten poster esp. for advertising.
--v.tr. also 1 set up placards on (a wall etc.).
2 advertise by placards.
3 display (a poster etc.) as a placard.

Etymology

ME f. OF placquart f. plaquier to plaster f. MDu. placken

THESAURUS

placard

advertise, affiche, ballyhoo, bark, bill, boost, build up, bulletin, circularize, cry up, establish, give a write-up, give publicity, handbill, plug, post, post bills, post up, poster, press-agent, promote, publicize, puff, sell, spiel, write up

ROGET THESAURUS

placard

Publication

N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.

VB publish, make public, make known, speak of, talk of, broach, utter, put forward, circulate, propagate, promulgate, spread, spread abroad, rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate, put forth, give forth, send forth, emit, edit, get out, issue, bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public, give out, give to the world, put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about, drag into the open day, voice, proclaim, herald, blazon, blaze abroad, noise abroad, sound a trumpet, trumpet forth, thunder forth, give tongue, announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets, proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross, advertise, placard, post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier, raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report, set news afloat, be published, be public, become public, come out, go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind, find vent, see the light, go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current, go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land, virum volitare per ora, pass from mouth to mouth, spread, run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.