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whiteboard

/ˈwaɪtbɔːd/ UK
/ˈwaɪtbɔɹd/ US

Where it comes from

From white + board, modelled on blackboard.

noun whiteboards

A writing board finished with a hard white material, which can be written upon using special non-permanent markers and subsequently wiped clean. 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine Mark Miller gave himself up to Xanadu's pull and rejoined the project full time. The new Xanadu site on Palo Alto's California Avenue was remodeled to resemble the environment at Xerox PARC. The programmers' offices opened onto a large common sp
broadly A collaborative tool allowing several users to write and draw on the same shared display.

verb whiteboards · whiteboarding · whiteboarded

To use a whiteboard, to write on a writeboard

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noun large vertical writing area

Español	pizarra, pizarra blanca, pizarrón albo
한국어	화이트보드 hwaiteubodeu, 백판 baekpan
日本語	ホワイトボード howaitobōdo, 白板 hakuban
中文	白板 báibǎn
हिन्दी	व्हाइटबोर्ड vhāiṭborḍ, वाइटबोर्ड vāiṭborḍ
Kiswahili	ubao mweupe
Português	quadro branco
Français	tableau, tableau blanc
Deutsch	Tafel, Weißwandtafel, Whiteboard
Italiano	lavagna, lavagna bianca
Ελληνικά	λευκοπίνακας lefkopínakas
Română	tablă
Русский	доска́ doská, бе́лая доска́ bélaja doská
Tiếng Việt	bảng trắng
العربية	سَبُورَة بَيْضَاء sabūra bayḍāʔ

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@misc{whiteboard_2026,
  title = {whiteboard},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whiteboard},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}