placard

«placard» in Mova's school dictionary: A large card or board with a message written on it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a placard, placards)

meaning for a pupil

A large card or board with a message written on it, carried at a protest or march, or put up in public. tree →

sense in the lessons

In citizenship and history lessons, protesters, marchers and suffragettes carried placards with slogans. In news, people hold placards at demonstrations. Schools make placards for climate strikes or charity events.

examples

• The protesters carried placards saying "Save our park". tree →
• Suffragettes held placards asking for votes for women. tree →
• We made placards for the class march about litter. tree →
• The placard was written in big red letters. tree →
• Fans held up placards for their favourite player. tree →
• Police asked them to lower their placards. tree →
• The sunlight shone on only one of the walls, and that one was stuck over with bills and placards, before which the people stood still; and this made a crowd. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced "PLA-kard". Similar: sign, banner, poster. Do not confuse with "placate" (to calm someone).

In the corpora

• "Le goûter est dans le placard.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «placard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.