community bulletin
- noun
- /kəˈmjunɪti ˈbʌlɪtɪn/
- I found a flyer for a neighborhood meeting pinned to the community bulletin in the park.
- community bulletin board
Examples
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A card on a community bulletin board advertises a basement apartment for rent.
Fiction book (1993) -
She picked up a flyer she'd found on a community bulletin board outside the post office.
Fiction book (2002) -
The ubiquitous community bulletin board, festooned with flyers and business cards, is evidence of how stores link customers to businesses and businesses to one another.
Academic text (2018) -
The community bulletin board is filled with announcements about local events and activities.
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Each month, the community bulletin lists activities for families and information about local services.
Synonyms
A short email or paper that gives news and updates to a group
A board on a wall for pinning public notices and messages
A board on a wall where people pin public messages and announcements
A short message giving the latest updates about a subject or organization
How Public
- Literature
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'community' (a local group of people) combined with 'bulletin' (a brief notice or report), yielding a notice or publication for local announcements. This straightforward noun-noun composition follows regular English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Community bulletin comes from the simple picture of a notice board where people in a neighborhood pin up messages. A bulletin is a short public notice and community means the local people, so the phrase means 'a place or paper for local events and announcements'.